Viviane Lyra
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.jpg) Lyra in 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Viviane Santana Lyra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Viviane Santana Lyra (born 29 July 1993 in Rio de Janeiro)[1] is a Brazilian racewalker. She competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[1] She did not finish her race.[1] She also competed in the same event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, United States.[2][3]
In 2019, she competed in the women's 50 kilometres walk event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[4] She finished in 4th place with a personal best of 4:22:46.[4]
In 2022, she broke the Brazilian record of 35 km twice, once in April, with a time of 2:49:12, and another at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, with the mark of 2:45:02, where she finished in 8th place.[5]
At the 2023 Pan American Race Walking Cup held in Managua, she won a gold medal in the 20 km walk.[3]
Lyra had hepatitis in June 2023, diagnosed during the La Coruña GP and had to stop training for 2 weeks. Despite this, at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, held in August in Budapest, she finished 4th in the 35 km walk race, breaking the Brazilian record, with a time of 2:44.40.[6]
At the 2023 Pan American Games, in the debut of the Race walk mixed team, Lyra and Caio Bonfim obtained the bronze medal.[7]
