Juventina Napoleão

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Juventina Napoleão
Juventina Napoleão (Oost Timor).jpg
Juventina Napoleão in the marathon event at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born (1988-12-22) December 22, 1988 (age 33)
Assalaino, East Timor, Indonesia
Height1.54 m (5 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country Timor-Leste
SportAthletics
Event(s)Marathon

Juventina Napoleão (born 22 December 1988 in Assalaino, East Timor, Indonesia) is an East Timorese long distance runner. She represented her country in the marathon event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished the race with a time of 3:05:07.[1]

Athletics career[]

The 154 cm tall athlete is a member of the Association Lautém sports club in Lospalos.

At the first Dili Marathon (2010) she finished second in the women's race in a time of 3.13:05. In the following year, she was first, in a time of 3:08.28.[2] In 2012, she came first in the Dili half marathon.

At the 2010 Asian Games, she was unable to finish the marathon.[3] She finished the 2012 Tokyo Marathon in 48th place, in a time of 3:05.15.[4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was the penultimate runner to finish the women's marathon, finishing in 106th place. She finished in a time of 3:05.07, a new personal best.[5]

For the 2012 Olympics, her trainer was the East Timorese coach, António Dacosta.[6] In the build up to the 2013 Dili Marathon, she trained with Calisto Da Costa, who himself ran for East Timor at the 2000 Olympics.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Profile Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Dili Marathon 2011 // Results // eventdirector results". 18 June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  3. ^ "Women Marathon Athletics Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou (CHN) - Saturday 27.11". 27 November 2010. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  4. ^ "2012 Tokyo Marathon". 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  5. ^ "IAAF: Marathon Result | The XXX Olympic Games | iaaf.org". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  6. ^ "Juventina Napoleao - Athletics - Olympic Athlete | London 2012". 2012-07-22. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  7. ^ "Preparasaun Dili Marathona 2013 TT Haruka Atleta Elite Nain 2 Tri Out ‹ Suara Timor Lorosae". jornal.suara-timor-lorosae.com. 17 June 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-15.

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