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Carla Sacramento
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Carla Sacramento

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Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, OIH (born December 10, 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira) is a middle distance runner from Portugal.

Biography

Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships.

She won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long distance running since. Sacramento has run under 2 minutes for 800 m and 4 minutes for 1500 m many times, both of which marks are thought of as benchmarks of world class running.

Sacramento competes for the Portuguese club Maratona Clube de Portugal but lives in Madrid. Her family is of Sao Tome origin. A track was named in her honour in Portugal.

She won the inaugural edition of the Oeiras International Cross Country race in 2000.

Major achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Portugal
1988World Junior ChampionshipsSudbury, Canada11th (sf)800 m2:07.24
1989European Junior ChampionshipsVaraždin, Yugoslavia4th800 m2:04.58
9th (h)4x400 m relay3:43.68
1990World Junior ChampionshipsPlovdiv, Bulgaria4th800 m2:04.83
4th1500 m4:15.29
Ibero-American ChampionshipsManaus, Brazil4th800m2:04.85
3rd1500m4:15.06
1992European Indoor ChampionshipsGenoa, Italy4th800 m2:02.90
1500 mDNF
Olympic GamesBarcelona, Spain14th (sf)800 m2:02.85
16th (sf)1500 m4:05.54
1993World Indoor ChampionshipsToronto, Canada7th1500 m4:13.41
World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden26th (h)800 m2:03.74
11th1500 m4:09.15
1994European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France3rd800 m2:01.12
European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland6th800m2:00.01
6th1500m4:20.62
1995World Indoor ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain2nd1500 m4:13.02
World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden3rd1500 m4:03.79
1996European Indoor ChampionshipsStockholm, Sweden1st1500 m4:08.95
Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States6th1500 m4:03.91
1997World Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France5th1500 m4:06.33
World ChampionshipsAthens, Greece1st1500 m4:04.24
UniversiadeCatania, Italy2nd1500 m4:10.40
1998Ibero-American ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal1st1500 m4:17.43
European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary2nd1500 m4:12.62
1999World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain5th1500 m4:01.29
2000Olympic GamesSydney, Australia10th1500 m4:11.15
2001World Indoor ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal4th1500 m4:11.76
World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada4th1500 m4:03.96
Goodwill GamesBrisbane, Australia3rdMile4:39.18
2002European Indoor ChampionshipsVienna, Austria2nd3000 m8:53.96
European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany12th1500 m4:17.01
2003World ChampionshipsParis, France21st (sf)1500 m4:13.14
2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece22nd (sf)1500 m4:10.85
  • In addition, she finished in the top ten at the World Cross Country Championships.

Personal bests

  • 400 m 54.07 (1997)
  • 800 m 1:58.94 (1997)
  • 1500 m 3:57.71 (1998)
  • 3000 m 8:30.22 (1999)
  • 5000 m 15:52.54 (2000)
  • 10 km 33:46(1997)

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