Tina Paulino
Personal information | |
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Born | 7 July 1973 |
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | 800 m |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 400 m: 51.82 800 m: 1:56.62 |
Medal record |
Argentina da Glória “Tina” Paulino (born 7 July 1973) is an 800 metres runner from Mozambique.
Early life
Born in
Career
In 1993, after a string of victories on the South African circuit, Tina stunned athletics observers by running 1:56.62 in a race won by cousin Mutola in 1:56.56. Both runners beat Mutola’s week-old African record. In the World Championship final of that year, held in Stuttgart she was unfortunate to fall over when challenging for a medal.
From 1995, Tina benefited from the ‘Atlanta ‘96’ IOC Solidarity Programme, an initiative designed to boost the Olympic preparations of carefully selected athletes from developing nations. Tina and eleven other athletes, including Tommy Asinga, Sipho Dlamini, Ngozi Mwanamwambwa and Marie Womplou, trained under the guidance of coach Ron Davis while attending LaGrange College at LaGrange, seventy miles southwest of
In May 1997 Tina followed the Olympic Solidarity Programme as it moved from LaGrange to Savannah. In Savannah she attended and graduated from Armstrong Atlantic State University with BA in English Literature. Here, Dieudonne Kwizera and
Tina also worked with Luiz de Oliveira in Tucson, Arizona. The Brazilian coached the 800 m stars Joaquim Cruz and Jose Luis Barbosa, as well as Osmar dos Santos and Hudson de Souza. He also coached David Krummenacker and Patrick Nduwimana. In 2002, she went to the Centro Nacional de Treinamento de Atletismo in Manaus, where she achieved her best mark of that season: 2:01.25. The rest of the season was quiet – with the exception of a few low-key meetings in Italy she did not compete in Europe. She also failed to contest the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
Later career
From late 2002 Tina was based in Rovereto in Italy and competed for the Italian club US Quercia Marsili. She was also coached by Margo Fund. She qualified for the 2003 World Championships thanks to the fact that Mutola, as defending champion, received automatic entry. After an impressive first-round victory, she failed to progress beyond the semi-finals. By now, Tina had established herself as a regular pacemaker in both 800 m and 1500 m races on the European circuit. In 2004, however, her regular appearances as a pacemaker meant that she had few occasions to attempt to meet the strict Olympic qualifying standards. After a promising early-season 2:00.96 in Brazil, her marks became slower and slower. Her final opportunity to reach the required two-minute mark, the Iberoamerican Games in Huelva in August, resulted in disaster – she failed to even qualify for the games final.
2005 started inauspiciously – with slow times outside 2:15.
External links
- Tina Paulino at World Athletics
- Tina Paulino at Olympics.com
- Tina Paulino at Olympedia
- Tina Paulino at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Tina Paulino at World Athletics
- Tina Paulino at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)