Ricardo Costa de Oliveira
Appearance
![]() Oliveira with coach at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Born | 14 June 1982 Três Lagoas, Brazil[1] | (age 42)
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Para athletics |
Disability class | F11/T11 |
Event | Long jump |
Medal record |
Ricardo Costa de Oliveira (born 14 June 1982) is a visually impaired athlete from Brazil who competes in the long jump and 100 m sprint. He won a gold medal in the long jump (F11 class) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[2] His sister Silvânia Costa de Oliveira also won the gold medal in the women's long jump T11 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ricardo de Oliveira conquista primeiro ouro do Brasil nas Paralimpíadas" [Ricardo de Oliveira wins first Brazilian gold in the Paralympics]. AgenciaBrasil.ebc.com.br (in Portuguese). 8 September 2016.
- ^ "Ricardo Costa de Oliveira". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016.
External links
[edit] Media related to Ricardo Costa de Oliveira at Wikimedia Commons
- Ricardo Costa de Oliveira at the International Paralympic Committee
- Ricardo Costa de Oliveira at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
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- 1982 births
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- Brazilian male long jumpers
- Brazilian male sprinters
- Paralympic athletes for Brazil
- Paralympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Paralympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- People from Três Lagoas
- Sportspeople from Mato Grosso do Sul
- 20th-century Brazilian sportspeople
- 21st-century Brazilian sportspeople
- Brazilian athletics biography stubs
- Brazilian Paralympic medalist stubs