Izabela Campos
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Brazil Rio 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Izabela Silva Campos |
| Born | 11 April 1981 Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sport | Para-athletics |
| Disability class | F11, F12 |
Event(s) | Shot Put, and Discus |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Paralympic finals | 2012, 2016, 2020 |
Medal record | |
Izabela Silva Campos[a] (born 11 April 1981) is a Brazilian visually impaired F11/12 shot putter and discus thrower. She won a bronze medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[1] She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's discus throw.[2]
Career
Campos competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in the women's shot put. That event was won by Assunta Legnante. She won a silver in the javelin.[4] At the 2016 Paralympics in Rio she threw her discus 32.60 m to get a bronze medal. She missed out to Liangmin Zhang (36.65 m) from China and Tang Hongxia (35.01 m).[5]
She competed at the 2019 Parapan American Games, winning gold in Discus, and bronze in Javelin, and Shot put.[6] She came twelfth in the shot put at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai but she took the bronze in the F11 Women's discus throw. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's discus throw.[2] Campos trains with other leading athletes at the Federal University of Minas. Gerais.[7] At the 2023 Parapan American Games Brazil sent a large team of 123 women and 190 men.[8] Campos took a gold in the F11 Discus and shot put.
In 2024 she competed in Paris at her fourth paralympics. Brazil sent four athletes: Campos, shot putter Ana Caroline da Silva, Arthur Xavier Ribeiro and Ana Carolina Silva de Moura.[9]
