Laila Ferrer de Silva

Laila Ferrer de Silva
nation	Brazil
birthday	30th July 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Pacatuba , Brazil
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	62.52 m (June 11, 2017 in São Bernardo do Campo )
society	Estrela de Guarulhos
status	active
Medal table
South American Games 1 × 0 × 1 × South American Championships 1 × 2 × 0 × Ibero-American Championships 0 × 2 × 2 × Military world games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
South American Games bronze Santiago 2014 57.11 m gold Cochabamba 2018 60.25 m South American Championships silver Cartagena 2013 58.80 m silver Luque 2017 58.50 m gold Lima 2019 57.79 m Ibero-American Championships bronze Barquisimeto 2012 57.14 m silver São Paulo 2014 58.12 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 60.44 m bronze Trujillo 2018 58.24 m Military world games silver Wuhan 2019 56.02 m
last change: January 1st, 2020

Laila Ferrer de Silva (born July 30, 1982 in Pacatuba ) is a Brazilian javelin thrower .

Athletic career

Laila Ferrer de Silva gained her first international experience in 2011 at the South American Championships in Buenos Aires , where she took fourth place with a width of 53.67 m. She then took part in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara for the first time and came in 15th with 46.43 m. The following year, she won the bronze medal behind Colombian Flor at the Ibero-American Championships in Barquisimeto with a throw of 57.14 m Ruíz and Leryn Franco from Paraguay. She then took part in the Olympic Games in London , but was eliminated there with 58.39 m in qualification . In 2013 she won the silver medal at the South American Championships in Cartagena with 58.80 m and only had to admit defeat to the Colombian Ruiz. In 2014 she took part in the South American Games in Santiago de Chile for the first time and won the bronze medal there with 57.11 m behind Ruiz and her compatriot Jucilene de Lima . She then won the silver medal behind de Lima at the Ibero-American Championships in São Paulo with 58.12 m. In 2015 she took part again in the Pan American Games in Toronto and was fourth there with 58.19 m, while in 2016 she won the silver medal behind Ruiz at the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro with 60.44 m.

In 2017 she also secured the silver medal at the South American Championships in Luque with 58.50 m and had to admit defeat to Ruiz again. She also started at the World Championships in London, but was eliminated there with 60.54 m in qualification . In the following year she won the South American Games in Cochabamba with 60.25 m and won the bronze medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Trujillo with 58.24 m behind the Colombian María Lucelly Murillo and Arantza Moreno from Spain. In 2019, she won the South American Championships in Lima with 57.79 m and took fifth place at the Pan American Games there with a width of 59.15 m. By winning the Continental Championships de Silva received a bye for the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated again with 55.49 m in qualification . She then won the silver medal behind Chinese Zhang Li at the World Military Games in Wuhan with 56.02 m .

From 2017 to 2019 de Silva was the Brazilian javelin champion.

Web links

• Laila Ferrer de Silva in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Laila Ferrer de Silva in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )