Lidiane Lopes

Lidiane Lopes
Personal information
Nationality Cape Verdean
Born (1994-09-01) 1 September 1994
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) (2016)[1]
Weight 70 kg (154 lb) (2016)[1]
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 100 metres
200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 100 metres: 12.38[2]
200 metres: 25.53[2]
Medal record
Representing  Cape Verde
Lusophony Games
2014 Goa 200 metres

Lidiane Lopes (born 1 September 1994) is a Cape Verdean sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres.[1] She is the current Cape Verdean record holder in the 100-metre sprint.[3] Lopes has competed at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.[4] At both Olympics, she competed in the 100 metres.[1][5] 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.

Competition

2011–12

Lopes' debut at an international athletics competition was at the 2011 World Youth Championships, where she competed in the 200 metres.[6] She finished last in her heat and ran a personal best time of 26.69 seconds.[6] She did not progress to the semi-final round.[7] She then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in the 100 metres.[8] She was disqualified from her heat and therefore did not race again at the competition.[6]

2012 Summer Olympics

Lopes' next major competition was the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[5] She qualified and competed in the 100 metres.[5] For the preliminary round, she was drawn in heat four.[9] In the heat of nine athletes,[9] Lopes finished fourth in a time of 12.72 seconds.[10] She was 1.12 seconds slower than the heat winner, Toea Wisil of Papua New Guinea.[9] Overall, Lopes' time was the 17th fastest in the preliminary round.[11] She did not progress to the heat round proper.[11] 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.[12]

2013–16

At the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, Lopes competed in both the 100 metres and 200 metres.[13] In the 100 metres she ran a time of 12.85 seconds and finished second last overall with Dianne Audrey Nioze of Seychelles the only athlete slower than her.[13] Lopes did not progress to the final.[13] In the 200 metres, Lopes came last in a time of 26.17 seconds and did not qualify for the final.[13] At the 2014 Lusophony Games, Lopes finished fourth in the 100 metres; in a time of 12.49 seconds; and she won the silver medal in the 200 metres; in a time of 25.07 seconds.[14][15] In her medal winning event, the 200 metres, she finished 0.07 seconds behind Indian Rengitha Chellah.[15] The 2015 World Championships was Lopes' first senior World Championships.[4] She competed in the 100 metres and finished last in her heat with a Cape Verdean national record time of 12.43 seconds.[16] Overall she was the 49th fastest out of 53 athletes and she did not progress to the semi-final round.[17] At the 2015 African Games, Lopes finished 27th overall in the 100 metres in a time of 12.55 seconds and 29th overall in the 200 metres in a time of 25.53 seconds.[18][19] Lopes' next major competition was the 2016 Ibero-American Athletics Championships.[20] She competed in the 100 metres and finished last overall in a time of 12.67 seconds.[20]

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lopes competed in the 100 metres.[1] For the preliminary round, she was drawn in heat two, a heat containing seven other athletes alongside Lopes.[21] In the race on 12 August 2016, she ran a time of 12.38 seconds.[22] Lopes' time was a new Cape Verdean national record.[3][22] After the race she told Ocean Press: "I have no words. I'm very happy".[3] Lopes' time was the 9th fastest out of 24 athletes in the preliminary round;[23] her time was 0.04 seconds slower than the slowest athlete to progress to the next round and, therefore, she was eliminated.[23]

Reference

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lidiane Lopes". Rio 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Lidiane Lopes". All Athletics. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Rio 2016: Lidiane Lopes brakes the national record". Ocean Press. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Lidiane Lopes". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Lidiane Lopes". Sports Reference. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "200 Metres Girls – Heats – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "200 Metres Girls – Heats – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "100 Metres Women – Heats – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Startlist". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  11. 1 2 "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "Cape Verde". Sports Reference. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Athletics – Results" (PDF). Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  14. ↑ "3rd Lusofonia Games 2014 – Day 1" (PDF). Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  15. 1 2 "3rd Lusofonia Games 2014 – Day 3" (PDF). Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  16. ↑ "100 Metres Women – Heats Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  17. ↑ "100 Metres Women – Heats – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  18. ↑ "Results Summary – 100 m – Women – First Round" (PDF). Brazzaville 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  19. ↑ "Results Summary – 200 m – Women – First Round" (PDF). Brazzaville 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  20. 1 2 "Results" (PDF). Brazil 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  21. ↑ "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Startlist". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  22. 1 2 "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  23. 1 2 "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
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