Lidiane Lopes
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| Nationality | Cape Verdean | |||||||||
| Born | 1 September 1994 | |||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) (2016) | |||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) (2016) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||
| Event(s) |
100 metres 200 metres |
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| Personal best(s) |
100 metres: 12.38 200 metres: 25.53 |
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Lidiane Lopes (born 1 September 1994) is a Cape Verdean sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the current Cape Verdean record holder in the 100-metre sprint. Lopes has competed at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. At both Olympics, she competed in the 100 metres. She has also competed in a World Championships, a World Junior Championships, a World Youth Championships, a Jeux de la Francophonie, a Lusophony Games, an African Games, and an Ibero-American Athletics Championships.
Lopes' debut at an international athletics competition was at the 2011 World Youth Championships, where she competed in the 200 metres. She finished last in her heat and ran a personal best time of 26.69 seconds. She did not progress to the semi-final round. She then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in the 100 metres. She was disqualified from her heat and therefore did not race again at the competition.
Lopes' next major competition was the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She qualified and competed in the 100 metres. For the preliminary round, she was drawn in heat four. In the heat of nine athletes, Lopes finished fourth in a time of 12.72 seconds. She was 1.12 seconds slower than the heat winner, Toea Wisil of Papua New Guinea. Overall, Lopes' time was the 17th fastest in the preliminary round. She did not progress to the heat round proper. By competing at the 2012 Games, she became the youngest Cape Verdean to compete at an Olympic Games at an age of 17 years and 337 days.
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