Vanessa Spínola

Vanessa Spínola
Full name	Vanessa Chefer Spínola
nation	Brazil
birthday	5th March 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	São Paulo , Brazil
size	178 cm
Weight	68 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Heptathlon , pentathlon
Best performance	6188 points 4292 points
status	active
Medal table
Pan American Games 0 × 0 × 1 × South American Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Pan American Games bronze Toronto 2015 6035 points South American Championships gold Lima 2009 5578 points gold Buenos Aires 2011 5428 points
last change: January 26, 2018

Vanessa Chefer Spínola (born March 5, 1990 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian heptathlete .

Athletic career

Her first international championships were the 2007 Junior South American Championships in São Paulo , where she won the gold medal in the long jump with .79 m. At the youth world championships in Ostrava she finished 21st in the heptathlon. In 2008 she was 16th at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz and won the gold medal at the U23 South American Championships in Lima with 5138 points. In 2009 she won the gold medal in the heptathlon and with the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay at the Junior South American Championships in São Paulo. She also took fourth place over 100 meters. Then she won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the Pan American Junior Championships in Port of Spain , as well as at the South American Championships in Lima. In 2010 she had to give up her competition at the South American Games in Medellín , which also represented the U23 South American Championships, and took fourth place at the Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando .

In 2011 she won the gold medal in the heptathlon again at the South American Championships in Buenos Aires . In 2012 she won the gold medal at the U23 South American Championships in São Paulo, as well as at the 2014 Ibero-American Championships there. In 2015 she won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto and qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she finished 26th with 5647 points . In 2016 she took part in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , where she was 23rd with 6024 points . A year later, she finished 27th at the World Championships in London with 4500 points . Two weeks later, the Santa Anna University Center student finished fifth at the Student World Games in Taiwan with 5337 points.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.95 s (+1.0 m / s), July 25, 2009 in São Paulo
• Long jump: 6.17 m (+1.1 m / s), September 17, 2010 in São Paulo
• Heptathlon: 6188 points, July 1, 2016 in São Bernardo do Campo ( Brazilian record )

discipline	Result	Points
100 m hurdles	14.23 s	946
high jump	1.81 m	991
Shot put	13.07 m	732
200 m	24.16 s	965
Long jump	6.15 m	896
Javelin throw	45.83 m	779
800 m	2: 16.01 min	879

• Pentathlon (hall): 4292 points, February 14, 2016 in Tallinn ( South American record )

Web links

Commons : Vanessa Spínola  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vanessa Spinola in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athlete profile of the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei