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Saint Lucia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney, Australia from 13 September to 1 October. Saint Lucia sent five athletes to the 2000 Summer Olympics, Ron Promesse, Dominic Johnson, Vernetta Lesforis, Jamie Peterkin, and Sherri Henry. While none of the athletes form Saint Lucia won an Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Jamie Promesse placed first in his heat for the men's 50-metre freestyle.
Yurisel Laborde Duanes is a judoka from Cuba. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she won a bronze medal in the women's Half Heavyweight (–78 kg) category, together with Lucia Morico of Italy. At the 2005 and 2007 World Championships Laborde won a gold medals in the same class.
Lucia Morico is an Italian judoka.
Lucia Hrivnák Klocová is a retired Slovak middle distance athlete, who specialized in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. She represented Slovakia at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. She has also reached the semi-finals of the World Championships in Athletics on five occasions.
Lucia Kimani Mwahiki-Marčetić is a Kenyan-born Bosnian long-distance runner who holds four Bosnian records over different distances.
Saint Lucia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The 2008 Saint Lucian team included four athletes that competed in two sports: swimming and athletics. Of these four athletes, Danielle Beaubrun, at age 18, was the youngest of the competitors. Dominic Johnson, at age 32, was the oldest, and was the only man sent as part of the 2008 delegation; additionally, Johnson was the only Saint Lucian athlete in the 2008 delegation who had previously participated in the Olympics.
Lucía López Martínez is a former female field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She played club hockey for Real Club de Polo in Barcelona.
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Lucia Chandamale is a Malawian athlete, who specialized in long-distance running. She represented Malawi at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed for the women's 5,000 metres. She ran in the first heat of the event, against sixteen other competitors, including Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba, who won the gold medal in the final round. Chandamale finished and completed the race in fifteenth place, with a time of 16:44.09, nearly nine seconds slower than her personal best of 16:35.75.
Lucia Medzihradská is a Slovak former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1988 Winter Olympics, 1992 Winter Olympics, and 1994 Winter Olympics. She studied Theory of Culture and Fine Art and is a photographer, graphic designer and creates artwork using digital and mixed media. She is also an artist with works on display with the Art of the Olympians.
Lucia Joas is a German cross-country skier.
Olga Lucía de Angulo Irragorri was a Colombian swimmer. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. She finished third in the 1971 Pan American Games 200 metres freestyle. De Angulo had lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1998.
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Lucia Bánhegyi-Radó is a Hungarian volleyball player. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
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- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lucia Focque Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
