Thaissa Barbosa Presti(born November 7, 1985, in

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) is a

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sprint athlete who competes internationally for

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., beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 30, 2008 Presti represented

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. She competed at the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

together with

Lucimar de Moura Lucimar Aparecida de Moura (born 22 March 1974 in Timóteo, MG) is a female track and field athlete from Brazil, who competes in the sprint events. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and won the ...

Rosemar Coelho Neto Rosemar Maria Coelho Neto (born January 2, 1977, in Miracatu, São Paulo) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil.

and

Rosângela Santos Rosângela Cristina Oliveira Santos (born December 20, 1990) is an American-born Brazilian track and field sprint athlete. Career Santos represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together ...

. In their first round heat they placed third behind

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and

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, but in front of

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. Their time of 43.38 seconds was the fifth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to a time of 43.14 seconds and the fourth place behind Nigeria, missing out on the bronze medal with 0.10 seconds. However, in 2016, the

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stripped

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of its Gold Medal due to doping, meaning Rosângela and her teammates inherited the bronze medal. Thaissa is daughter of former soccer player

Zé Sérgio José Sérgio Presti (born March 8, 1957 in São Paulo), best known as ''Zé Sérgio'', is a former football (soccer) player who played as a striker. He played for clubs São Paulo (1977–1984), Santos (1984–1986), Vasco da Gama (1986–1987 ...

References

* 1985 births Living people Brazilian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes from São Paulo Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic female sprinters 21st-century Brazilian women {{Brazil-athletics-bio-stub