Nationality Brazil Weight 69 kg Height 1.69 m | Name Alessandra Resende Sport Athletics Events Javelin throw | |
Full name Alessandra Nobre Resende Born 5 March 1975 (age 49) ( 1975-03-05 ) Sao Paulo, Brazil Personal best(s) Javelin throw: 59.58 m (2007) | ||
Alessandra Nobre Resende (born March 5, 1975 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian javelin thrower. She is a two-time Ibero-American and a four-time South American champion for her category. Resende, however, narrowly missed out of the medal podium, when she placed fifth in the final at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, with a best throw of 57.95 metres.
At age thirty-three, Resende made her Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's javelin throw. She threw the javelin into the field at 56.53 metres, finishing twenty-seventh overall in the qualifying rounds.
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