Tamara de Sousa

Tamara de Sousa
Full name	Tamara Alexandrino de Sousa
nation	Brazil
birthday	8th September 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
Best performance	6040 points
status	active
Medal table
South American Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
South American Championships gold Cartagena 2013 5685 points gold Asunción 2017 5667 points  Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 5900 points
last change: January 28, 2018

Tamara Alexandrino de Sousa (born September 8, 1993 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian heptathlete .

Athletic career

Her first international championships were the 2009 youth world championships in Brixen , where she finished 15th with 4522 points. A year later she won the gold medal at the South American Youth Championships in Santiago de Chile . In 2011 she won the gold medal at the Pan American Junior Championships in Miramar and the Junior South American Championships in Medellín . In 2012 she won the bronze medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Barquisimeto , as well as at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona . She then won the silver medal at the U23 South American Championships in São Paulo .

In 2013 she won the gold medal at the South American Championships in Cartagena . A year later she was fifth at the South American Games in Santiago and won the bronze medal in the high jump at the Ibero-American Championships in São Paulo with 1.75 m. In 2015, she finished tenth at the Pan American Games in Toronto . In 2016 she took part in the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro , where she was seventh with 4102 points. In 2017 she won the gold medal again at the South American Championships in Luque and thus received a bye for the World Championships in London . There she finished 24th with 5631 points .

In 2013, 2014 and 2017 she became the Brazilian heptathlon champion.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.85 m, June 14, 2014 in São Paulo
• Heptathlon: 6040 points, June 11, 2017 in São Bernardo do Campo

discipline	Result	Points
100 m hurdles	13.88 s	995
high jump	1.77 m	941
Shot put	14.56 m	831
200 m	24.48 s	935
Long jump	5.99 m	846
Javelin throw	44.20 m	748
800 m	2: 26.01 min	744

Web links

• Tamara de Sousa in the database of World Athletics (English)