Thaissa Presti
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 4 × 100 m relay
Thaissa Presti in 2007

Thaissa Barbosa Presti[1](born November 7, 1985, in São Paulo[2]) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil.[3]

Presti represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 × 100 metres relay together with Lucimar de Moura, Rosemar Coelho Neto and Rosângela Santos. In their first round heat they placed third behind Belgium and Great Britain, but in front of Nigeria. Their time of 43.38 seconds was the fifth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to a time of 43.14 seconds and the fourth place behind Nigeria, missing out on the bronze medal with 0.10 seconds.[3] However, in 2016, the IOC stripped Russia of its Gold Medal due to doping, meaning Rosângela and her teammates inherited the bronze medal.[4]

Thaissa is daughter of former soccer player Zé Sérgio.

References

  1. ^ (in Portuguese) Rede Atletismo for Pan 2007 Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in Portuguese) UOL Profile for 2008 Olympic Games
  3. ^ a b "Athlete biography: Thaissa Presti". Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-30.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 30, 2008
  4. ^ "IOC strips Russia of gold in 2008 women's relay race".


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