Vicente de Lima

Vicente Lenílson de Lima (born June 4, 1977) is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4×100 metres relay.[1][2]

Vicente de Lima
Personal information
Full nameVicente Lenílson de Lima
Nationality Brazil
Born (1977-06-04) June 4, 1977
Currais Novos, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
SportRunning
Event(s)Sprints
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m: 10.13 s (São Paulo 2004)
200 m: 20.39 s (Belém 2004)
Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place2008 Beijing4×100 m relay
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2003 Paris4×100 m relay
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place2007 São Paulo100 m
Gold medal – first place2007 São Paulo4×100 m relay
Military World Games
Gold medal – first place2011 Rio de Janeiro4×100 m relay
Lusophony Games
Gold medal – first place2009 Lusophony Games39.30 m
Updated on 14 October 2015.

De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The 37.90 seconds were not enough to beat the 37.61 seconds of the United States, but De Lima, Edson Ribeiro, André da Silva and Claudinei da Silva managed to finish before the Cuban team who timed 38.04 seconds. At the 2003 World Championships he and his teammates won the silver medal at the 4x100 metres relay. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 3rd in his heat, just 0.06 after Usain Bolt and 0.02 after Daniel Bailey in a time of 10.26 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he ran slower with 10.31, resulting in a sixth place and elimination for the semi-finals.[1] Together with José Carlos Moreira, Sandro Viana and Bruno de Barros he also competed at the 4x100 metres relay. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the Jamaican, Trinidad and Japanese teams.[1]

De Silva would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion of the Jamaican team in 2017 for Nesta Carter's failed anti-doping test.[3]

Personal bests
  • 100 m: 10.13 s (wind: +0.7 m/s) – Brazil São Paulo, 6 June 2004
  • 100 m: 10.08 s (wind: +3.0 m/s) – Guatemala Ciudad de Guatemala, 11 May 2002
  • 200 m: 20.39 s (wind: -1.0 m/s) – Brazil Belém, 23 May 2004
  • 4 × 100 m: 37.90 s – Australia Sydney, 30 Sep 2000

Achievements
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing the  Brazil
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 6th 4 × 100 m relay 38.48
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 7th (qf) 100 m 10.36 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
2000 Ibero-American Championships Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 100 m 10.28 (wind: +0.0 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.24
Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 20th (qf) 100 m 10.28 (wind: +0.8 m/s)
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 37.90
2001 South American Championships Manaus, Brazil 1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.67
2002 Ibero-American Championships Guatemala, Guatemala 2nd 100 m 10.08 w (wind: +3.0 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.58
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 6th (sf) 60 m 6.70
Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.44
World Championships Saint-Denis, France 2nd 4 × 100 m relay 38.26
2004 Ibero-American Championships Huelva, Spain 1st 100 m 10.15 (wind: +0.0 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.62
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 16th (sf) 100 m 10.28 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
8th 4 × 100 m relay 38.67
2005 South American Championships Cali, Colombia 2nd 100 m 10.37 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
1st (h)[4] 200 m 21.16 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 39.17
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia 7th 60 m 6.62
Ibero-American Championships Ponce, Puerto Rico 1st 100 m 10.22 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
2nd (h)[5] 200 m 21.37 (wind: -1.6 m/s)
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 40.52
South American Championships Tunja, Colombia 2nd (h)[4] 100 m 10.61 (wind: -3.8 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 39.03
2007 South American Championships São Paulo, Brazil 1st 100 m 10.36 (wind: -0.7 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.77
Pan American Games Río de Janeiro, Brazil 7th 100 m 10.37 (wind: +1.0 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.81
World Championships Osaka, Japan 6th (qf) 100 m 10.38 (wind: -0.3 m/s)
4th 4 × 100 m relay 37.99
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 5th 60 m 6.60
Ibero-American Championships Iquique, Chile 1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.96
Olympic Games Beijing, China 7th (qf) 100 m 10.31 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 38.24
2009 South American Championships Lima, Perú 2nd 4 × 100 m relay 39.46
Lusophony Games Lisbon, Portugal 1st 4 × 100 m relay 39.30
World Championships Berlin, Germany 7th 4 × 100 m relay 38.56
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 15th (sf) 60 m 6.69
2011 Military World Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 4 × 100 m relay 39.53

References
  1. "Athlete biography: Vicente Lima". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on September 9, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2008.
  2. Nossos Atletas Olímpicos - VICENTE LENILSON DE LIMA - Uma largada fundamental - Velocista potiguar tem bons resultados individuais e por equipes (in Portuguese), CBAt, retrieved June 16, 2014
  3. "Usain Bolt loses one Olympic gold medal as Nesta Carter tests positive". BBC News. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  4. Did not finish in the final
  5. Disqualified in the final
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