Enezaide^[1] do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes OIH (born 20 November 1979) is a former Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper. She also competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At club level, she represented Sporting CP.

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Naide Gomes

Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Portugal World Championships 2009 Berlin Long jump World Indoor Championships 2004 Budapest Pentathlon 2008 Valencia Long jump 2006 Moscow Long jump 2010 Doha Long jump European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid Long jump 2007 Birmingham Long jump 2002 Vienna Pentathlon 2011 Paris Long jump European Championships 2006 Gothenburg Long jump 2010 Barcelona Long jump Universiade 2005 Izmir Long jump

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Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 years old. At the Sydney Olympics, Gomes was the São-Tomé flag carrier in the opening ceremony. Before changing nationality she set the current São Tomé and Príncipe records in 100 metres hurdles, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin throw and heptathlon.^[2]

She gained Portuguese citizenship in 2001,^[3] and has since represented Portugal at major international events.

Gomes has won the gold medal for long jump at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, raising the national record to 6.89 m.

In Madrid, she became the first Portuguese athlete ever to reach the seven metres distance in the long jump, by jumping 7.01m. In Valencia she won gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2008, by jumping 7.00m.

On 22 July, Naide Gomes was the winner of the IAAF Super Grand Prix DN Galan, Stockholm, Sweden, with a new national record of 7.04 m.

On 29 July, at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Herculis, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, she jumped 7.12 m, a new national record and 2008 world's best mark.

On 19 August, at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, a top-favorite for the gold medal, in peak physical condition and having dominated the season, Gomes unexpectedly fouled on her first two attempts and then stutter-stepped on her final try jumping a mere 6.29 m, thus failing to qualify to the final.

She won the long jump gold medal at the 2009 Lusophony Games with a jump of 6.74 m.^[4]

On 26 March 2015, Naide Gomes announced her retirement in a special news conference with close friends and the long term coach, at age 35.^[5][6] Main reasons appointed the prolonged injuries she is suffering since 2013, that took her away from the tracks, and the need of another surgery. She said to be very proud of her career, after winning 11 international medals, though failing at Olympic level, and wants to continue to be close to athletes, either as a coach or as physiotherapist. She also announced she's expecting her first child.^[7]

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