Naide GOMES

Naide Gomes - Portugal - 4th at the 2007 World Championships & European Indoor Champion.(result)

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 28 August 2007

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Tuesday, 20 November 1979
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      São Tome e Principe, Portugal
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Portugal
    • Event(s)
      Long Jump, Heptathlon
    • Championship Performances
      Worlds: 2007 4th. long jump.
      World Indoors: 2004 Gold, 2006
      silver, 2008 Gold, 2010 silver.
      European: 2002
      silver, 2006 & 2010 silver Long Jump, 2011 silver.
      European Indoors: 2005 & 2007 Gold long jump,
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Naide GOMES - Portugal - 4th at the 2007 World Championships & European Indoor Champion.(result)

Naide is pictured above during the final of the womens Long Jump at the 2007

World Championships in Osaka. Gomes, the silver medallist at the 2006

European Championships, finished in 4th place with a jump of 6.87m,

just 3cm back on the bronze medallist Tatyana Kotova.

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Women's Long Jump final.

2007 World Athletics Championships

1. Tatyana LEBEDEVA   RUS   7.03
2. Lyudmila KOLCHANOVA   RUS   6.92
3. Tatyana KOTOVA   RUS   6.90
4. Naide GOMES   POR   6.87
5. Bianca KAPPLER   GER   6.81
6. Maurren Higa MAGGI   BRA   6.80
7. Keila COSTA   BRA   6.69
8. Brittney REESE   USA   6.60

 

 

A delighted Naide is pictured above after winning gold in the women's Long Jump

at the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

Her leap of 6.89m was a new indoor national record for Portugal

and also a world leading mark for 2007.

Picture 4th. March 2007.  George Herringshaw. ©

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Womens Long Jump Final.

2007 European Indoor Championships

1. Naide Gomes   POR   6.89m
2. Concepcion Montaner   ESP   6.69m
3. Denisa Scerbova   CZE   6.64m
4. Bianca Kappler   GER   6.63m
5. Yelena Sokolova   RUS   6.53m
6. Alina Militaru   ROM   6.45m
7. Viktoriya Rybalko   UKR   6.44m
8. Ineta Radevica   LAT   6.40m