Lucimara Silvestre da Silva (born 10 July 1985 in

Lucélia Lucélia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 mill ...

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) is a Brazilian

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athlete who competes in the

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. She represented her country at the

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and competed at the

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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

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with a meet record score and took the

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at the

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. 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

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(EPO).

Career

She began her career as a specialist in the

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten Hurdling, hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first h ...

and horizontal jumps. She was the sprint hurdles champion and

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runner-up at the 2002

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and went on to win the hurdles at the 2003

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, where she was also fifth in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. 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.da Silva, Lucimara

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. Retrieved on 2011-06-05. In her first international appearance in the combined events, she came fourth overall at the

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. The following year she competed in Europe for the first time, gaining 4584 points at the

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meet in

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.Lucimara da Silva
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-06-05. She improved her best to 5611 points on home turf in

and demonstrated her versatility at the

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the following month, claiming the hurdles title and helping the Brazilian women to gold medals in the 100 and 400 m

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events. Following a personal best score of 5897 points for fourth at the 2007 Multistars meeting, her first continental title came at the

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. Her mark of 5803 points was a new

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and she also managed a

in the 100 m hurdles at the competition. She scored over 5800 points again at July's

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and claimed the

behind

Jessica Zelinka Jessica Zelinka (born 3 September 1981 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian pentathlete, heptathlete, and 100 m hurdler. Her personal best score is 6599 points for the heptathlon. She was the gold medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games. Zeli ...

and

Gretchen Quintana Gretchen Quintana Cordero (also ''Grechin Quintana''; born June 30, 1984 in San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río) is a female heptathlete from Cuba, who competed for her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Personal bests *Heptathlon: 6076 ...

. As her continent's only representative in the

women's heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

at the

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, she finished in 31st place. Da Silva achieved the Olympic qualifying standard in April 2008, setting a best of 5906 points in

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. She won the heptathlon

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at the

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, but did not fare as well at the national championships later that month, as she ended up in fourth. Representing Brazil at the

, she came seventeenth in the heptathlon event but broke

Conceição Geremias Conceição Aparecida Geremias (born July 23, 1956 in Campinas, São Paulo) is a retired female pentathlete, heptathlete and long jumper from Brazil. Biography She won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas Caracas (, ), o ...

' 25-year-old

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record with her total of 6076 points. She won at the Brazilian Championships in 2009 with a score of 5884 points and then improved her own meet record to win the

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. However, this mark did not stand as she had failed a doping test in the days prior to the competition, testing positive for the banned substance

Recombinant EPO Erythropoietin (; EPO), also known as erythropoetin, haematopoietin, or haemopoietin, is a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia; it stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bone ...

. Her coach, Jayme Netto, admitted that he had administered the drug on a number of his athletes.Romanelli, Amanda (2009-08-05)
Técnico Jayme Netto assume culpa por doping dos brasileiros
. ''Estadao''. Retrieved on 2011-06-05. She was stripped of her South American title and banned from the sport for two years for the doping infraction.

Personal

Lucimara da Silva gave birth to her first daughter, Sellena, in December 2013, and her second daughter, Mia, in May 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Lucimara da 1985 births Living people Brazilian heptathletes Olympic athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games athletes for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Sportspeople from São Paulo (state) Doping cases in athletics Brazilian sportspeople in doping cases Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games People from Lucélia

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