Vicente de Lima
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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.<ref name="beijing">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=cbat_01> Template:Citation </ref>
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 4 × 100 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.<ref name="beijing"/> Together with José Carlos Moreira, Sandro Viana and Bruno de Barros he also competed at the 4 × 100 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.<ref name="beijing"/>
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.<ref name=BBCJan17>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal bests
- 100 m: 10.13 s (wind: +0.7 m/s) – Template:Flagicon São Paulo, 6 June 2004
- 100 m: 10.08 s (wind: +3.0 m/s) – Template:Flagicon Ciudad de Guatemala, 11 May 2002
- 200 m: 20.39 s (wind: -1.0 m/s) – Template:Flagicon Belém, 23 May 2004
- Template:Nowrap: 37.90 s – Template:Flagicon Sydney, 30 Sep 2000
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Brazilian men sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Olympic athletes for Brazil
- Pan American Games athletes for Brazil
- Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Norte
- 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen
- Troféu Brasil de Atletismo winners
- Military World Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Military World Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen