Vânia Silva

Vânia Sofia de Sousa Silva (born June 8, 1980 in Leiria ) is a Portuguese hammer thrower . She participated in both the 2001, 2003 and 2007 World Championships and the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.

Vânia Silva won her first Portuguese national championship title in 2000, until 2009 she was able to win the title a total of eight times, only in 2002 and 2004 Sónia Alves won . At the 2001 World Championships , she finished fourteenth in her qualifying group with 58.91 meters. Two years later at the World Championships in 2003 she threw the hammer at 63.82 meters, as tenth in her qualifying group she was 2.28 meters behind the qualifying distance for the final. After that, she did not manage to place in the top 12 of her qualification group either at the Olympic Games, or at World or European Championships. In 2006 Vânia Silva achieved her greatest international success when she won the silver medal behind Amarilys Alméstica from Puerto Rico at the Ibero-American Games with 64.59 meters .

She reached her personal best of 68.82 meters in July 2004 in Lisbon . Vânia Silva is 1.72 meters tall and her competition weight is 79 kilograms.

Portuguese championship title

• 2000 with 61.27 meters
• 2001 with 63.64 meters
• 2003 with 65.87 meters
• 2005 with 62.94 meters
• 2006 with 65.29 meters
• 2007 with 65.21 meters
• 2008 with 65.64 meters
• 2009 with 64.08 meters

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 , p. 591.
2. ↑ Portuguese championship titles ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2009 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. (pdf)