Núbia Soares

Núbia Soares

Personal information
Born	(1996-03-26) 26 March 1996 (age 29) Lagoa da Prata, Brazil
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Triple jump
Club	Clube Atletismo BM&F Bovespa
Coached by	Neilton Moura

Núbia Aparecida Soares (born 26 March 1996) is a Brazilian athlete whose specialty is the triple jump.^[2] She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Her personal bests in the event are 14.69 metres outdoors (Sotteville-lès-Rouen 2018) and 14.00 metres indoors (Birmingham 2018).

Before turning to athletics, she was a handball player.^[4]

Competition record

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Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Brazil
2013	World Youth Championships	Donetsk, Ukraine	4th	Triple jump	13.60 m
	Pan American Junior Championships	Medellin, Colombia	3rd	Triple jump	13.33 m
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	8th	Triple jump	13.53 m (w)
	South American U23 Championships	Montevideo, Uruguay	2nd	Triple jump	13.31 m
2015	Pan American Games	Toronto, Canada	11th	Triple jump	13.57 m (w)
	Pan American Junior Championships	Edmonton, Canada	1st	Triple jump	14.16 m (w)
	World Championships	Beijing, China	22nd (q)	Triple jump	13.52 m
2016	Ibero-American Championships	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2nd	Triple jump	14.00 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	34rd (q)	Triple jump	13.85 m
2017	South American Championships	Asunción, Paraguay	1st	Triple jump	14.42 m (w)
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	9th	Triple jump	14.00 m
	South American Games	Cochabamba, Bolivia	1st	Triple jump	14.59 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	17th (q)	Triple jump	14.07 m
2022	Ibero-American Championships	La Nucía, Spain	–	Triple jump	NM
	South American Games	Asunción, Paraguay	3rd	Triple jump	13.10 m
2023	Pan American Games	Santiago, Chile	6th	Triple jump	12.78 m

References

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1. "2018 South American Games bio". Retrieved 18 June 2018.
2. Núbia Soares at World Athletics
3. "Athletics SOARES Nubia". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
4. "Ex-jogadora de handebol, Núbia Soares é campeã do salto triplo no Troféu Brasil" (in Portuguese). www.clubedeatletismo.org.br. Retrieved 25 August 2015.

External links

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• Núbia Soares at World Athletics
• Núbia Soares at Olympics.com
• Núbia Soares at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)
• Núbia Soares at Olympedia