Vicente de Lima

Vicente de Lima

Personal information
Full name	Vicente Lenílson de Lima
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1977-06-04) June 4, 1977 (age 47) Currais Novos, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event	Sprints
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.13 s (São Paulo 2004) 200 m: 20.39 s (Belém 2004)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay 2008 Beijing 4×100 m relay World Championships 2003 Paris 4×100 m relay South American Championships 2007 São Paulo 100 m 2007 São Paulo 4×100 m relay Military World Games 2011 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay Lusophony Games 2009 Lusophony Games 39.30 m
Updated on 14 October 2015

Vicente Lenílson de Lima (born June 4, 1977) is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4×100 metres relay.^[1][2]

De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The 37.90 seconds were not enough to beat the 37.61 seconds of the United States, but De Lima, Edson Ribeiro, André da Silva and Claudinei da Silva managed to finish before the Cuban team who timed 38.04 seconds. At the 2003 World Championships he and his teammates won the silver medal at the 4x100 metres relay. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 3rd in his heat, just 0.06 after Usain Bolt and 0.02 after Daniel Bailey in a time of 10.26 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he ran slower with 10.31, resulting in a sixth place and elimination for the semi-finals.^[1] Together with José Carlos Moreira, Sandro Viana and Bruno de Barros he also competed at the 4x100 metres relay. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the Jamaican, Trinidad and Japanese teams.^[1]

De Silva would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion of the Jamaican team in 2017 for Nesta Carter's failed anti-doping test.^[3]

• 100 m: 10.13 s (wind: +0.7 m/s) – São Paulo, 6 June 2004
• 100 m: 10.08 s (wind: +3.0 m/s) – Ciudad de Guatemala, 11 May 2002
• 200 m: 20.39 s (wind: -1.0 m/s) – Belém, 23 May 2004
• 4 × 100 m: 37.90 s – Sydney, 30 Sep 2000

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the  Brazil
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	6th	4 × 100 m relay	38.48
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	7th (qf)	100 m	10.36 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
2000	Ibero-American Championships	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	100 m	10.28 (wind: +0.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.24
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	20th (qf)	100 m	10.28 (wind: +0.8 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	37.90
2001	South American Championships	Manaus, Brazil	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.67
2002	Ibero-American Championships	Guatemala, Guatemala	2nd	100 m	10.08 w (wind: +3.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.58
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	6th (sf)	60 m	6.70
	Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.44
	World Championships	Saint-Denis, France	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	38.26
2004	Ibero-American Championships	Huelva, Spain	1st	100 m	10.15 (wind: +0.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.62
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	16th (sf)	100 m	10.28 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
			8th	4 × 100 m relay	38.67
2005	South American Championships	Cali, Colombia	2nd	100 m	10.37 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
			1st (h)[4]	200 m	21.16 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.17
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	7th	60 m	6.62
	Ibero-American Championships	Ponce, Puerto Rico	1st	100 m	10.22 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
			2nd (h)[5]	200 m	21.37 (wind: -1.6 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	40.52
	South American Championships	Tunja, Colombia	2nd (h)[4]	100 m	10.61 (wind: -3.8 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.03
2007	South American Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	1st	100 m	10.36 (wind: -0.7 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.77
	Pan American Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7th	100 m	10.37 (wind: +1.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.81
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	6th (qf)	100 m	10.38 (wind: -0.3 m/s)
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.99
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	5th	60 m	6.60
	Ibero-American Championships	Iquique, Chile	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.96
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	7th (qf)	100 m	10.31 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	38.24
2009	South American Championships	Lima, Perú	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	39.46
	Lusophony Games	Lisbon, Portugal	1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.30
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	7th	4 × 100 m relay	38.56
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	15th (sf)	60 m	6.69
2011	Military World Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.53

• Vicente de Lima at World Athletics
• Vicente de Lima at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Tilastopaja biography

Sporting positions
Preceded by Claudinei da Silva	Brazil's National Champion 100 metres 2000	Succeeded by Claudinei da Silva Raphael de Oliveira
Preceded by Claudinei da Silva Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil's National Champion 100 metres 2002	Succeeded by Édson Ribeiro
Preceded by Édson Ribeiro	Brazil's National Champion 100 metres 2004–2005	Most recent