Núbia Aparecida Soares (born 26 March 1996) is a Brazilian

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

whose specialty is 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 long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. She competed at the

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. Her personal bests in the event are 14.69 metres outdoors (Sotteville-lès-Rouen 2018) and 14.00 metres indoors (Birmingham 2018). Before turning to athletics, she was a

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* 1996 births Living people Brazilian female triple jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Brazil South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 South American Games Pan American Games athletes for Brazil South American Games gold medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen South American Games competitors for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 South American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Pan American Games {{Brazil-athletics-bio-stub