Naide Gomes

Naide Gomes at the 2009 World Championships

Naide Gomes (full name Enezenaide do Rosario da Vera Cruz Gomes ; born November 10, 1979 in São Tomé and Príncipe ) is a Portuguese athlete .

Life

For São Tomé and Príncipe she took part in the 1999 African Games and was fifth in the heptathlon . At the 2000 Olympic Games , she started over 100 meters in the lead.

In 2001 Naide Gomes changed her citizenship and became Portuguese. At the European Indoor Championships in 2002 , she won her first medal for Portugal when she finished second in the pentathlon. Gold went to Jelena Prokhorova from Russia and Carolina Klüft from Sweden won bronze . At the European Championships in 2002 Naide Gomes was tenth in the long jump and eighteenth in the heptathlon.

At the World Indoor Championships in 2003 , she finished fifth in the pentathlon. A year later she won the 2004 indoor world championships with a personal best of 4794 points. At the 2004 Olympic Games she finished 13th in the heptathlon with 6151 points.

In Madrid at the 2005 European Indoor Championships , Naide Gomes won gold in the long jump with 6.70 m. It took some time before their victory was official. In the last attempt, the distance measurement showed a distance of 6.96 m when the German Bianca Kappler jumped . This distance measurement was obviously not correct, on the other hand no hand measurement had been made, so that Kappler, who was four places and five centimeters behind the bronze medal at this point, recognized one attempt less than the other athletes. A day later, the Solomonic judgment was made: Kappler received an additional bronze medal, the rest of the result remained unaffected. So Naide Gomes was able to receive her gold medal.

At the 2005 World Championships , Gomes competed in the heptathlon and finished seventh with 6189 points after she had achieved a personal best three weeks earlier in Logrono, Spain, with 6230 points.

2006 Naide Gomes appeared mainly as a long jumper. With 6.76 m she initially won bronze at the World Indoor Championships and moved up to silver after Tatjana Kotova's doping disqualification . At the European Championships she won silver with 6.84 m behind the Russian Lyudmila Kolchanova , who jumped 6.93 m.

At the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 , Naide Gomes won the long jump with a new Portuguese national record of 6.89 m. On July 21, 2007, she jumped 7.01 m in Madrid for the first time over the seven-meter mark. This made her one of the favorites for the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Up until the last round she was in second place behind Tatiana Lebedewa with 6.87 m . In the last round it was surpassed by Lyudmila Kolchanowa and Tatjana Kotowa , Gomes was fourth.

In 2008 at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia , she won the long jump with 7.00 m. At the Super Grand Prix meeting in Stockholm on July 22, 2008, she first improved her national record to 7.04 m. She increased this on July 29th in Monte Carlo to 7.12 m. At the 2008 Olympic Games , she could not qualify for the final in the long jump.

In Berlin at the 2009 World Championships she missed the bronze medal by three centimeters with 6.77 m as fourth in the long jump. After two years, Gomes won another medal at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, with 6.67 m she was three centimeters behind the winner Brittney Reese . Their defeat at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona was even closer . Like the Latvian European champion Ineta Radēviča , Gomes jumped 6.92 m, the second best jump decided the gold and silver and Radēviča jumped 6.87 m compared to Gomes' 6.68 m.

At a height of 1.81 m, her competition weight is 70 kg.

literature

• Hans van Kuijen: 2005 Annual Combined Events. Helmond 2006.
• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2005. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 1-899807-27-6 .

Web links

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