Osmar Barbosa dos Santos (born October 20, 1968, in Marilia) is a retired Brazilian middle distance runner who competed mostly over 800 metres. He started competing internationally around year 1996 and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Indoor Championships.
Togo competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. The country's participation at Athens marked its seventh appearance in the Summer Olympics since its debut at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, West Germany. The delegation included two track and field athletes and a single canoeist; Jan Sekpona in the men's 800 metres, Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni in the women's 400 metres, and Benjamin Boukpeti in the men's K-1. Both Sekpona and Thiébaud-Kangni were eliminated in the first round of their competitions, while Boukpeti progressed to the semi-finals.
Argentina da Glória “Tina” Paulino is an 800 metres runner from Mozambique.
Amine Laâlou is a Moroccan track and field athlete, who specializes in middle-distance running. He has represented his country at the Summer Olympics on two occasions; in 2004 and 2008. He began his career as an 800 metres specialist and made his global debut at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. He won medals at smaller international competitions, including the 2004 Pan Arab Games and 2005 Mediterranean Games. He reached his first global final at the 2007 World Championships, taking sixth, and was a semi-finalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Marílson Gomes dos Santos is a Brazilian long-distance runner.
Odair Santos is a visually impaired Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won nine Paralympic medals, including five silver medals. Santos is also a four time IPC World champion at the 1,500 metres event, being unbeaten from 2006 to 2015.
Luciana Alves dos Santos is a Brazilian long jumper, triple jumper and sprinter.
Osmar is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Manoel dos Santos Júnior is a former Brazilian swimmer, former world record holder and a bronze medalist in 100-metre freestyle at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960.
The final of the Men's 800 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on Wednesday August 6, 2003, with the heats staged a day earlier. The Moroccan-born Canadian Achraf Tadili ran a very quick finish to win in a record time of 1:45.05, faster than the previous Pan Am Record (1:45.38) set by USA’s Johnny Gray four years earlier in Winnipeg. Brazil’s Osmar dos Santos (1:45.64) could not respond to his rival’s late surge and finished second, ahead of his compatriot Fabiano Peçanha (1:46.39).
Redelén Melo dos Santos is a Brazilian former track and field athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best of 13.29 seconds for the event is the South American record. He is a two-time South American Champion in the hurdles and also won a silver medal in 2001.
Evelyn Carolina de Oliveira dos Santos is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in sprinting events.
Franciela das Graças Krasucki is a Brazilian sprinter.
Jan Sekpona is a retired Togolese middle-distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres. Sekpona qualified for the Togolese squad in the men's 800 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by attaining an entry time and a personal best of 1:52.40. Running against seven other athletes in heat three, Sekpona crossed the finish line by nearly ten minutes behind leader Wilson Kipketer of Denmark with an eighth-place time in 1:54.25. Sekpona failed to advance into the semifinals as he placed farther from two automatic slots for the next round and ranked no. 70 overall in the prelims. Sekpona was also appointed as the Togolese flag bearer by the National Olympic Committee in the opening ceremony.
Christiane Ritz dos Santos is a Brazilian middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events. She won the bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. In addition, she finished fifth at the 2003 Summer Universiade.
Juliana Paula Gomes dos Santos is a Brazilian middle-distance runner. Her greatest achievement is a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2007 Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro. She is a three-time gold medallist at the South American Championships in Athletics, being the 1500 m champion in 2003 and 2006, as well as a 4 × 400 metres relay champion.
Brazil has participated in all the World Championships in Athletics since the beginning in 1983. Brazil is 53rd on the all time medal table. Brazil's first World Championships medal was a bronze medal won by Joaquim Cruz in the Men's 800 metres in 1983. Fabiana Murer won Brazil's first gold medal and the first woman's medal in the pole vault in 2011. Alison dos Santos was the first man to win a gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles in 2022. Claudinei Quirino has the most medals with three.
Jerusa Geber dos Santos is a visually impaired Brazilian sprinter. Competing in the T11 classification, Geber has competed in five Summer Paralympic Games, winning two gold, two silver and two bronze medals. She is also a multiple World Championships and Parapan American medalist, taking ten medals over five tournaments.
Osmar dos Santos Filho, commonly known as Mazinho is a Brazilian professional footballer who last played for Caldense in the Campeonato Mineiro.
Felipe Bardi dos Santos is a Brazilian track and field sprinter.
Aline dos Santos Rocha is a Brazilian wheelchair racer and skier, who came third at the 2021 Berlin Marathon, and won multiple medals at the 2023 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and the 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics.