Carla_Sacramento
Carla Sacramento
Portuguese middle-distance runner (born 1971)
Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento OIH (born 10 December 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira)[1] is a middle distance runner from Portugal.
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Portugal | ||
| World Championships | ||
 | 1997 Athens | 1500 m |
 | 1995 Gothenburg | 1500 m |
Sacramento won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships.
Sacramento won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long distance running since. Sacramento has run under 2 minutes for 800 m and 4 minutes for 1500 m many times, both of which marks are thought of as benchmarks of world class running.
Sacramento competes for the Portuguese club Maratona Clube de Portugal but lives in Madrid. Her family is of Sao Tome origin. A track was named in her honour in Portugal.
Sacramento won the inaugural edition of the Oeiras International Cross Country race in 2000.[2]
- In addition, she finished in the top ten at the World Cross Country Championships.
- 400 m 54.07 (1997)
- 800 m 1:58.94 (1997)
- 1500 m 3:57.71 (1998)
- 3000 m 8:30.22 (1999)
- 5000 m 15:52.54 (2000)
- 10 km 33:46(1997)
- "10 de Dezembro: Aniversário de Carla Sacramento/Rainha absoluta dos 800, 1.500 m e 3.000 m!". Revista Atletismo (in European Portuguese). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- Atletismo: Carla Sacramento vence I Crosse de Oeiras[permanent dead link]. Record (2002-02-13). Retrieved on 2009-11-22.
