Lucimara da Silva

Personal information

Full name

Lucimara Silvestre da Silva

Nationality

Brazil

Born

10 July 1985 (age 31)
Lucélia, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

63 kg (139 lb)

Sport

Athletics

Medal record

Women's athletics
Representing Brazil
Pan American Games
	2011 Guadalajara	Heptathlon
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Heptathlon
South American Championships
	2007 São Paulo	Heptathlon
	2007 São Paulo	100 m hurdles

Updated on 14 May 2013.

Lucimara Silvestre da Silva (born 10 July 1985 in Lucélia, São Paulo) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007. Her personal best of 6076 points is the South American record for the event.

Following her first national title in 2005, da Silva emerged in 2007; she won the South American Championships with a meet record score and took the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. She repeated as the continental champion in 2009, but was stripped of the title and banned for two years after she failed a drug test for the banned substance Erythropoietin (EPO).

She began her career as a specialist in the 100 metres hurdles and horizontal jumps. She was the sprint hurdles champion and long jump runner-up at the 2002 South American Youth Championships in Athletics and went on to win the hurdles at the 2003 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, where she was also fifth in the triple jump. She took up the heptathlon in 2004 and made her breakthrough at the national level the following year, winning the Brazil championships with a personal best of 5378 points.

In her first international appearance in the combined events, she came fourth overall at the 2005 South American Championships in Athletics. The following year she competed in Europe for the first time, gaining 4584 points at the Multistars meet in Desenzano del Garda. She improved her best to 5611 points on home turf in São Paulo and demonstrated her versatility at the 2006 Lusophony Games the following month, claiming the hurdles title and helping the Brazilian women to gold medals in the 100 and 400 m relay events.

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