Liliana Cá
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | Liliana da Silva Cá |
Born | Barreiro, Portugal | 5 November 1986
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Discus throw |
Coached by | Herédio Costa |
Liliana da Silva Cá[2] (born 5 November 1986) is a Portuguese athlete specialising in the discus throw.[3]
Career
Cá won a silver medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games. She had a five-year break in her career between 2013 and 2018 to raise children.[4]
Her personal best in the event is 66.40 metres set in Leiria in 2021,[5] a national record. On 27 February 2021, Liliana threw 65:10 m in a preparation test in Vagos and got the entry standard for the Tokyo Olympic Games. She holds the Portuguese record for the discus throw in front of Teresa Machado (65.40 m) in 1998 and Irina Rodrigues (63.96 m) in 2016.[citation needed]
Personal life
Born in Portugal, Cá is of Bissau-Guinean descent.[6]
International competitions
References
- ^ "2018 Med Games bio". Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- ^ "Portugueses | Tóquio 2020". PÚBLICO.
- ^ Liliana Cá at World Athletics
- ^ "Jogos do Mediterrêneo: prata no disco é "tripla satisfação" para Liliana Cá" (in Portuguese). record.pt. 28 June 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- ^ "Liliana Cá bate recorde nacional do lançamento do disco" (in Portuguese). publico.pt. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Desporto - Atletismo: Liliana Cá, a paixão do disco". RFI. 8 October 2021.
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Sportspeople from Barreiro, Portugal
- Living people
- Portuguese female discus throwers
- S.L. Benfica athletes
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Portugal
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Black Portuguese sportspeople
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Portugal
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- 20th-century Portuguese women
- 21st-century Portuguese women
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Portugal
- Portuguese sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- Portuguese athletics biography stubs