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| Full name | Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 January 1965 (age 59) Santos, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | F53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes (born 15 January 1965) is a Brazilian paralympic athlete, who competes in the F52 class. She won the gold medal in the women's discus throw F53 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. [1]
Rodrigues Gomes competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games as an athlete of wheelchair basketball.
She is coached by Rosi Farias at club level, [2] and Amaury Wagner Verissimo at national team level.
She competed at the 2015 Parapan American Games, 2019 Parapan American Games, [3] [4] [5] and 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. [6]
Jerusa Geber dos Santos is a visually impaired Brazilian sprinter. Competing in the T11 classification, Geber has competed at two Summer Paralympic Games, winning two silver and a bronze medal. She is also a multiple World Championships and Parapan American medalist, taking ten medals over five tournaments. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 100m T11, and Women's 200m T11.
Izabela Silva Campos is a Brazilian visually impaired F11/12 shot putter and discus thrower. She won a bronze medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's discus throw.
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Francisca Mardones is a Chilean Paralympic athlete and former wheelchair tennis player. She has competed at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in tennis, before retiring in 2017 to concentrate on athletics. She broke her own world record in the F54 Women's shot put event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Mardones is part of the LGBTQ+ community.
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