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| Nationality | Portugese | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Middle-distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:00.07 (Huelva, 2023 1500m: 4:05.02 (Pombal, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Patricia Silva (born 9 December 1999) is a Portuguese middle-distance runner. [1]
She started athletics at the Clube Ateneu Artístico Cartachense. However, after that club closed down her father, Rui Silva, created the Escola de Atletismo Rui Silva, in Cartaxo. She then became a member of Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Grupo Desportivo do Estreito, before joining Sporting CP in Lisbon. She made her first international appearance in 2016 at the European Youth Olympic Festival (FOGE). [2] [3]
She competed for Portugal at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships. [4] That year, she finished sixth at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships in the women's 1500 metres. [5] In 2022, she won the bronze medal in the 800 metres at the Ibero-American Championships. In 2023, she became Portuguese champion over 800 metres. [2] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, in the women's 800 metres. [6]
She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in the women's 800 metres. [7] In January 2025, she set a new personal best winning in Dortmund over 1500 metres indoors. [8] She competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn in the women's 1500 metres, where she qualified for the final. [9] She qualified for the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing. [10] [11] In the final, she ran 1:59.80 and set a personal best as well as a Portugese national indoor record, and won the bronze medal, 24 years after her father won the bronze medal in the 2001 edition held in Lisbon. [12]
Her father, Rui Silva was an Olympic bronze medalist in Athens in 2004, and her mother, Susana Cabral and grandfather Carlos Cabral, were middle-distance runner as well. [13] [4] [2]
