Núbia Soares

Núbia Soares
Full name	Núbia Aparecida Soares
nation	Brazil
birthday	26th March 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Lagoa da Prata , Brazil
size	176 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	14.69 m
society	BM&F Bovespa
status	active
Medal table
South American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × South American Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
South American Games gold Cochabamba 2018 14.59 m South American Championships gold Asunción 2017 14.42 m
last change: February 21, 2019

Núbia Aparecida Soares (born March 26, 1996 in Lagoa da Prata ) is a Brazilian triple jumper .

Athletic career

Núbia Soares gained her first international experience at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where she finished fourth with 13.60 m. Then she won the bronze medal at the Pan American Junior Championships in Medellín with 13.33 m. In 2014 she was eighth at the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 13.53 m and won silver with 13.31 m at the U23 South American Championships in Montevideo behind the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas . In 2015 she reached eleventh place at the Pan American Games in Toronto with a width of 13.57 m and then won the Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton with 14.16 m . She also qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she did not reach the final with 13.52 m . The following year she won the silver medal behind her compatriot Keila Costa at the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro with 14.00 m . She then took part in the Olympic Games there, but retired with 13.85 m in qualification .

In 2017 she won the South American Championships in Luque with 14.42 m ahead of the eventual world champion Rojas. The following year she was at the Indoor World Championships in Birmingham with 14.00 m ninth and won in June with 14.59 m at the South American Games in Cochabamba .

In 2014 and 2017 Soares became Brazilian triple jump champion.

Personal best

• Triple jump: 14.69 m (+1.3 m / s), July 17, 2018 in Sotteville ( Brazilian record )
  • Triple jump (hall): 14.00 m, March 3, 2018 in Birmingham

Web links

• Núbia Soares in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Núbia Soares in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )