Marisa Vaz Carvalho

Marisa Vaz Carvalho
nation	Portugal
birthday	19th November 1999 (age 20)
place of birth	Lisbon , Portugal
Career
status	active
Medal table
U18 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U18 European Championships bronze Tbilisi 2016 6.08 m
last change: March 11, 2018

Marisa Vaz Carvalho (born November 19, 1999 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese athlete who competes in hurdles , long jump and heptathlon . She is under contract with the Portuguese sports club Benfica Lisbon .

family

Marisa Vaz Carvalho comes from a family of athletes: the athlete Teresa Vaz Carvalho , who was also born in Lisbon in 1995, is her sister, her mother is the heptathlete and two-time Portuguese darts champion Terezinha Vaz , and her father is the athlete Joaquim Carvalho , u. a. Portuguese champion in the decathlon, 400-meter run and 400-meter hurdles. The athlete José Carvalho , born in 1953, is her uncle. a. Part of the Portuguese Olympic team in Montreal in 1976, where he finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles.

She lives in Cascais and studies at the Sports Medicine Faculty of the University of Lisbon , the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana in Cruz Quebrada (as of February 2018).

Athletic career

Marisa Vaz Carvalho competed in her first international championship at the U18 World Championships in 2015 in Cali , where she finished fifth in the hurdles and eighth in the heptathlon with 5666 points. In 2016 she took part in the U18 European Championships, which were held for the first time in Tbilisi , where she won the bronze medal in the long jump and took eighth place in the hurdles in the final. In 2017 she qualified for the U20 European Championships in Grosseto , where she finished sixth over the hurdles in 13.60 seconds. In the long jump and with the Portuguese 4 x 100 meter relay, however, she was eliminated in the preliminary run.

In 2017 Vaz Carvalho became Portuguese pentathlon indoor champion.

Personal best

• 100 m hurdles: 13.41 s (+0.1 m / s), June 17, 2017 in Lisbon
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.37 s, February 19, 2017 in Pombal
• Long jump: 6.24 m (−2.5 m / s), May 21, 2016 in Lisbon
  • Long jump (hall): 6.12 m, January 20, 2018 in Pombal
• Heptathlon: 5755 points, June 4th 2017 in Arona
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4064 points, February 12, 2017 in Pombal

Web links

• Marisa Carvalho Vaz in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile Marisa Vaz Carvalhos at www.the-sports.org
• Collection of articles on Marisa Vaz Carvalho from the Portuguese sports newspaper Record

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Marisa Vaz Carvalhos at www.runningmag.pt, accessed on March 14, 2018
2. ↑ Marisa Vaz de Carvalho bate recorde europeu juvenil dos 100 metros barreiras - "Marisa Vaz Carvalho breaks European youth record of 100 meter hurdles" , article from July 15, 2016 in the news portal of the public television broadcaster RTP , accessed on March 14, 2018
3. ^ Self-profile on Marisa Vaz Carvalho's personal page on Facebook , accessed on March 14, 2018
4. ↑ Result list of the U18 European Championships in Tbilisi 2016 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Grosseto 2017