Portuguese sprinter (born 1994)
Cátia Azevedo
Cátia Azevedo in 2015
Full name Cátia Isabel da Silva Azevedo Born (1994-03-09 ) 9 March 1994 (age 30) Oliveira de Azeméis , PortugalEducation Nursing School of Lisbon Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[ 1] Weight 53 kg (117 lb) Sport Athletics Event 400 metres Club Sporting CP Personal best 400 m : 50.59 s (2021, NR )
Cátia Isabel da Silva Azevedo (born 9 March 1994) is a Portuguese record-breaking sprinter specialising in the 400 metres , who competes for Portugal and Sporting CP .[ 2] [ 3] She won two gold medals at the 2018 Ibero-American Championships .
Her personal bests in the event are 50.59 seconds outdoors (Huelva 2021) and 53.10 seconds indoors (Madrid 2020). The first is the current national record .
Azevedo is also a nurse by training.[ 4]
International competitions [ edit ]
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Notes
Representing Portugal
2013
European Junior Championships
Rieti, Italy
5th
400 m
52.89
2014
European Championships
Zürich, Switzerland
18th (h)
400 m
52.87
10th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:35.41
2015
European U23 Championships
Tallinn, Estonia
14th (h)
400 m
53.49
2016
European Championships
Amsterdam, Netherlands
12th (sf)
400 m
52.46
13th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:32.48
Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
31st (h)
400 m
52.38
2017
World Championships
London , United Kingdom
39th (h)
400 m
52.79
Universiade
Taipei, Taiwan
5th
400 m
52.39
2018
World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
29th (h)
400 m
54.17
8th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:35.43
Mediterranean Games
Tarragona, Spain
5th
400 m
52.63
5th
4 × 400 m relay
3:34.21
European Championships
Berlin, Germany
18th (sf)
400 m
52.23
12th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:33.35
Ibero-American Championships
Trujillo, Peru
1st
400 m
52.26
1st
4 × 400 m relay
3:36.49
2019
European Indoor Championships
Glasgow, United Kingdom
22nd (h)
400 m
53.43
Universiade
Naples, Italy
5th
400 m
52.07
World Championships
Doha, Qatar
40th (h)
400 m
52.79
2021
European Indoor Championships
Toruń, Poland
24th (h)
400 m
53.28
Olympic Games
Tokyo, Japan
17th (sf)
400 m
51.32
2022
World Indoor Championships
Belgrade, Serbia
19th (h)
400 m
53.01
Ibero-American Championships
La Nucía , Spain
5th
400 m
51.58
2022
Mediterranean Games
Oran, Algeria
1st
400 m
51.24
World Championships
Eugene, United States
19th (sf)
400 m
51.79
European Championships
Munich, Germany
11th (sf)
400 m
51.42
2023
World Championships
Budapest, Hungary
32nd (h)
400 m
51.93
2024
World Indoor Championships
Glasgow, United Kingdom
14th (h)
400 m
52.92
9th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:31.93
European Championships
Rome, Italy
14th (h)
400 m
52.53
13th (h)
4 × 400 m relay
3:29.50