Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa (born 6 February 1983) is a Brazilian
Early career
She was born in Abreu e Lima near Recife,[1] and took up athletics at the age of nine.[2][3] It was not the easiest of things to become an international athlete, as the city of Abreu e Lima did not sport a rubber track; also she came from a "humble family".[4]
As a junior athlete she competed in two World Junior Championships. At the
In the following seasons, she rarely competed internationally, except for a participation at the
International breakthrough
Her definite international breakthrough came in 2007. She improved both her personal best jumps with good margins. In May in Belém she jumped 6.88 metres,[5] and in São Paulo in June she jumped 14.57 metres for a continental and championship record at the 2007 South American Championships in Athletics. She also won the silver medal in the long jump behind Maggi.[8] In May she had become the first South American woman to break the 15-metre-barrier. However, her 15.10 m jump in Uberlândia, Brazil had a tail wind of 2.7 m/second, and thus could not be accepted.[9] When jumping 14.57, she established a new South American record.[10] At the 2007 Pan American Games she won two silver medals,[2] and at the 2007 World Championships in August she finished ninth in the triple and seventh in the long jump competition. At the World Athletics Final towards the end of the season, she finished sixth in the triple and fifth in the long jump.[5]
In 2008, she did not compete in the triple jump at all. In the long jump, though, she finished seventh at the
In the 2009 season, she won the
She opened 2010 with her first podium finish on the global stage: competing in the long jump at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, she twice jumped 6.63 m to secure the bronze medal behind Brittney Reese and Gomes.[15] She became a double Brazilian champion later that year with victories in both the long jump and triple jump at the Troféu Brasil Caixa de Atletismo.[16]
Personal life
Costa has a relationship with Panamanian Olympic champion in the long jump, Irving Saladino. The two met at the 2004 Olympic Games.[4]
Costa stands 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, and weighs approximately 137 pounds (62 kg).[1]
Notes
^i Note that this is sometimes given, wrongly, as being a South American record. The best South American result at the time belonged to Luciana dos Santos, who jumped 14.01 metres in 2000.[17]
Personal bests
| Event | Result | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoor | |||
| 100 m | 12.43 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) |  Belém |
6 May 2005 |
| Long jump | 6.88 m (wind: -0.1 m/s) | Belém |
20 May 2007 |
| Triple jump | 14.58 m (wind: +2.0 m/s) | São Paulo |
7 Jun 2013 |
| Indoor | |||
| Long jump | 6.64 m |  Paris-Bercy |
13 Feb 2009 |
| Triple jump | 14.11 m |  Moscow |
10 Mar 2006 |
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representing Brazil
| |||||
| 1999 | South American Junior Championships | Concepción, Chile | 3rd | Triple jump | 12.62 m |
| 2000 | South American Junior Championships | São Leopoldo, Brazil
|
1st | Triple jump | 13.65 m |
| World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile
|
11th | Triple jump | 12.97 m (wind: +0.9 m/s) | |
| South American Youth Championships | Bogotá, Colombia | 1st | Long jump | 6.05 m A | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.04 m A | |||
| 2001 | South American Championships | Manaus, Brazil
|
1st | Triple jump | 13.61 m |
| South American Junior Championships | Santa Fe, Argentina | 1st | Long jump | 6.20 m | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.66 m | |||
| Pan American Junior Championships | Santa Fe, Argentina | 3rd | Long jump | 5.97m | |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 13.55 m | |||
| 2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 17th (q) | Long jump | 5.98 m (wind: +1.1 m/s) |
| 3rd | Triple jump | 13.70 m (wind: +0.5 m/s) | |||
| South American Junior Championships / South American Games |
Belém, Brazil | 1st | Long jump | 6.37 m (wind: +1.4 m/s) | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.78 m (wind: -0.5 m/s) | |||
| 2003 | South American Championships | Barquisimeto, Venezuela
|
1st | Long jump | 6.30 m |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.62 m | |||
| 2004 | South American U23 Championships | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | 1st | Long jump | 6.19 m (wind: +1.6 m/s) |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.62 m (wind: +0.3 m/s) | |||
| Ibero-American Championships | Huelva, Spain
|
6th | Long jump | 6.27 m | |
| 3rd | Triple jump | 13.80 m | |||
| Olympic Games | Athens, Greece
|
31st (q) | Long jump | 6.33 m | |
| 2005 | South American Championships | Cali, Colombia
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.32 m |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 13.75 m | |||
| 2006 | World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia
|
10th (q) | Triple jump | 14.11 m |
| Ibero-American Championships | Ponce, Puerto Rico | 1st | Long jump | 6.54 m | |
| World Cup | Athens, Greece | 7th | Long jump | 6.33 m (wind: +0.2 m/s) | |
| 2007 | South American Championships | São Paulo, Brazil
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.83 m |
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.57 m | |||
| Pan American Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.73 m | |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 14.38 m | |||
| World Championships | Osaka, Japan
|
7th | Long jump | 6.69 m | |
| 9th | Triple jump | 14.40 m | |||
| World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 5th | Long jump | 6.46 m (wind: +0.4 m/s) | |
| 6th | Triple jump | 14.13 m (wind: +0.5 m/s) | |||
| 2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain
|
7th | Long jump | 6.48 m |
| Olympic Games | Beijing, China
|
11th | Long jump | 6.43 m | |
| 2009 | South American Championships | Lima, Peru
|
1st | Long jump | 6.62 m |
Lusophony Games
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.71 m (w)
| |
| World Championships | Berlin, Germany
|
7th (q) | Long jump | 6.66 m[18] | |
| World Athletics Final | Thessaloniki, Greece | 7th | Long jump | 6.53 m w (wind: +3.1 m/s)
| |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar
|
3rd | Long jump | 6.63 m |
| 2011 | South American Championships | Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.45 m |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 13.96 m | |||
| Military World Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | Long jump | 6.41 m (wind: +0.1 m/s) | |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 14.11 m (wind: +0.0 m/s) | |||
| Universiade | Shenzhen, China
|
11th | Long jump | 6.19 m | |
| World Championships | Daegu, South Korea
|
24th (q) | Long jump | 6.26 m | |
| 12th | Triple jump | 13.72 m | |||
| Pan American Games | Guadalajara, Mexico
|
5th | Long jump | 6.37 m | |
| 4th | Triple jump | 14.01 m | |||
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey
|
11th (q) | Long jump | 6.45 m |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom
|
20th (q) | Triple jump | 13.84 m | |
| 2013 | South American Championships | Cartagena, Colombia | 2nd | Long jump | 6.49 m |
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.21 m (w) | |||
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia
|
13th (q) | Triple jump | 13.82 m | |
| 2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland
|
10th (q) | Triple jump | 13.64 m |
| South American Games | Santiago, Chile
|
1st | Long jump | 6.35 m | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.65 m | |||
| Pan American Sports Festival | Ciudad de México, México | 4th | Triple jump | 13.95m A (wind: +0.5 m/s) | |
| 2015 | Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada
|
2nd | Triple jump | 14.50 m (w) |
| World Championships | Beijing, China
|
26th (q) | Long jump | 6.32 m | |
| 12th | Triple jump | 13.90 m | |||
| 2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland, United States | 9th | Triple jump | 13.94 m |
| Ibero-American Championships | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.43 m | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.01 m | |||
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|
38th (q) | Long jump | 5.86 m | |
| 24th (q) | Triple jump | 13.78 m | |||
| 2019 | South American Championships | Lima, Peru
|
2nd | Long jump | 6.38 m |
| 2021 | South American Championships | Guayaquil, Ecuador
|
1st | Triple jump | 13.67 m |
References
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- ^ a b c d Biscayart, Eduardo (14 December 2007). "I always had the dream of reaching 15m – Keila Costa". IAAF.org. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^
A Equipe - Atletas Feminino - Perfil - Keila Costa (in Portuguese), Clube de Atletismo BM&F Bovespa, retrieved April 17, 2014
- ^ a b c d Pochat, Víctor (4 March 2008). "Focus on Athletes - Keila da Silva COSTA". IAAF.org. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-22.
- ^ "All-time women's best triple jump—wind-assisted jumps". Track and Field all-time Performances Homepage. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (10 June 2007). "14.57 Area Triple Jump Record for Costa as South American Champs finish". IAAF.org. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
- ^ "Triple Jump Records". IAAF. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
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- ^ No mark in the final
