Silvânia Costa de Oliveira

Silvânia Costa de Oliveira
	Silvânia Costa de Oliveira in 2016
Personal information
Born	23 May 1987 (age 36); Três Lagoas, Brazil
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country	Brazil
Sport	Para athletics
Disability	Vision impairment
Disability class	T11
Event	Long jump
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Parapan American Games

Silvânia Costa de Oliveira (born 23 May 1987) is a visually impaired Brazilian Paralympic athlete.^[1]^[2] She is a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Paralympics. She won the gold medal in the women's long jump T11 event both at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.^[3]^[4]

Her brother Ricardo Costa de Oliveira won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the men's long jump T11 event.^[5]

Achievements[edit]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Brazil
2015	Parapan American Games	Toronto, Canada	1st	Long jump
2016	Summer Paralympics	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	Long jump	4.98
2021	Summer Paralympics	Tokyo, Japan	1st	Long jump	5.00

References[edit]

^ "Silvânia Costa de Oliveira". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016.
^ "Silvania Costa de Oliveira". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
^ "Tlili claims fourth shot put gold on opening day". Paralympic.org. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
^ "Women's long jump T11 Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
^ "Ricardo Costa mantém tradição da família e dá 1º ouro do Brasil no salto em distância para cegos". BBC Brazil (in Portuguese). 8 September 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2020.

External links[edit]

Silvânia Costa de Oliveira at the International Paralympic Committee
Silvânia Costa de Oliveira at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)

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[1] "Silvânia Costa de Oliveira". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016.

[paralympic_bio-2] "Silvania Costa de Oliveira". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 10 January 2020.

[tlili_claims_fourth_shot_put_gold_summer_paralympics_2020-3] "Tlili claims fourth shot put gold on opening day". Paralympic.org. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

[women_long_jump_t11_summer_paralympics_2020-4] "Women's long jump T11 Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

[bbc_brazil_rio_2016-5] "Ricardo Costa mantém tradição da família e dá 1º ouro do Brasil no salto em distância para cegos". BBC Brazil (in Portuguese). 8 September 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2020.

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