Carolina Duarte
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Born | 8 January 1990 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sport | Sprints |
| Club | CS Maritimo |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Regional finals | 2012 European Championships |
Medal record
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Carolina Duarte (born 8 January 1990) is a track and field athlete from Portugal competing mainly sprint events.[1] Duarte has competed in both able bodied and disabled sporting competitions. In disability sport she competes as a T13 athlete, a classification for athletes who are visually impaired.
Athletics career
As an able-bodied athlete
Duarte began her athletics career competing in able-bodied track and field events. Her early personal bests, set in 2010, were all in short distance sprints, setting a time of 12.17 in the 100 metres.[2] As her career progressed she gravitated towards the 400 metres event and also competed in the 400 metres hurdles.[2] In 2012 she was selected to join the Portugal team that competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships, competing as part of the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
As a disability athlete
Due to reduced vision, Duarte was able to become classified as a T13 track and field athlete. In 2016 she was selected for the Portugal national team that competed at the IPC Athletics European Championships in Grosseto.[3] There she competed in three events, the T13 100m, 200m and 400m sprints. In her first event, the 200 metres, she was edged into second place by France's Nantenin Keïta, who set a championship record to take the gold medal.[4] Duarte followed this with a bronze in the 400 metres. On the penultimate day she competed in the 100 metres, and despite not running a personal best, Duarte set a championship record with a time of 12.87s.[5]
Notes
- ↑ "Carolina Duarte". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- 1 2 "Carolina Duarte". all-athletics.com. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "Athlete Profile: Duarte, Carolina". paralympic.org. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "World, European and championship records fall on day one at Grosseto 2016". paralympic.org. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "Six more golds for Great Britain and Russia as Bulgaria's Ruzhdi Ruzhdi and Russia's Sofia Oksem throw new world records at Grosseto 2016". paralympic.org. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.