Vicente Lenílson de Lima (born 4 June 1977) is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4 × 100 metres relay.
De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The 37.90 seconds were not enough to beat the 37.61 seconds of the United States, but De Lima, Edson Ribeiro, André Domingos and Claudinei da Silva managed to finish before the Cuban team who timed 38.04 seconds. At the 2003 World Championships he and his teammates won the silver medal at the 4 × 100 metres relay. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 3rd in his heat, just 0.06 after Usain Bolt and 0.02 after Daniel Bailey in a time of 10.26 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he ran slower with 10.31, resulting in a sixth place and elimination for the semi-finals. Together with José Carlos Moreira, Sandro Viana and Bruno de Barros he also competed at the 4 × 100 metres relay. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the Jamaican, Trinidad and Japanese teams.
De Silva would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion of the Jamaican team in 2017 for Nesta Carter's failed anti-doping test.
Personal bests 100 m: 10.13 s (wind: +0.7 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 6 June 2004 100 m: 10.08 s (wind: +3.0 m/s) – Guatemala City, Guatemala, 11 May 2002 200 m: 20.39 s (wind: -1.0 m/s) – Belém, Brazil, 23 May 2004 : 37.90 s – Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2000
Achievements Representing the 1997World ChampionshipsAthens, Greece6th4 × 100 m relay38.481999World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain7th (qf)100 m10.36 (wind: +0.3 m/s)2000Ibero-American ChampionshipsRio de Janeiro, Brazil1st100 m10.28 (wind: +0.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.24Olympic GamesSydney, Australia20th (qf)100 m10.28 (wind: +0.8 m/s)2nd4 × 100 m relay37.902001South American ChampionshipsManaus, Brazil1st4 × 100 m relay38.672002Ibero-American ChampionshipsGuatemala City, Guatemala2nd100 m10.08 w (wind: +3.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.582003World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom6th (sf)60 m6.70Pan American GamesSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic1st4 × 100 m relay38.44World ChampionshipsSaint-Denis, France2nd4 × 100 m relay38.262004Ibero-American ChampionshipsHuelva, Spain1st100 m10.15 (wind: +0.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.62Olympic GamesAthens, Greece16th (sf)100 m10.28 (wind: +0.2 m/s)8th4 × 100 m relay38.672005South American ChampionshipsCali, Colombia2nd100 m10.37 (wind: +0.2 m/s)1st (h)200 m21.16 (wind: +0.3 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay39.172006World Indoor ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia7th60 m6.62Ibero-American ChampionshipsPonce, Puerto Rico1st100 m10.22 (wind: +0.3 m/s)2nd (h)Disqualified in the final200 m21.37 (wind: -1.6 m/s)2nd4 × 100 m relay40.52South American ChampionshipsTunja, Colombia2nd (h)Did not finish in the final100 m10.61 (wind: -3.8 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay39.032007South American ChampionshipsSão Paulo, Brazil1st100 m10.36 (wind: -0.7 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.77Pan American GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil7th100 m10.37 (wind: +1.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.81World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan6th (qf)100 m10.38 (wind: -0.3 m/s)4th4 × 100 m relay37.992008World Indoor ChampionshipsValencia, Spain5th60 m6.60Ibero-American ChampionshipsIquique, Chile1st4 × 100 m relay38.96Olympic GamesBeijing, China7th (qf)100 m10.31 (wind: -0.1 m/s)3rd4 × 100 m relay38.242009South American ChampionshipsLima, Peru2nd4 × 100 m relay39.46Lusofonia GamesLisbon, Portugal1st4 × 100 m relay39.30World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany7th4 × 100 m relay38.562010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar15th (sf)60 m6.692011Military World GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil1st4 × 100 m relay39.53
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Tilastopaja biography