Full name Josiane da Silva Tito Height 1.67 m Name Josiane Tito | Sport Athletics Nationality Brazil Weight 55 kg | |
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Born 8 August 1979 (age 44) ( 1979-08-08 ) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Event(s) Middle distance running Personal best(s) 400 m: 53.05 s (2007)
800 m 2:01.28 (2007) Club University of the West of Sao Paulo | ||
Jarbas mascarenhas josiane tito e claudinei pereira vitor 1998
Josiane da Silva Tito (born August 8, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian sprinter and middle-distance runner.
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Career
She set a personal best time of 2:01.28 for the 800 metres at the 2007 Pan American Games, coincidentally in her home city. Tito also competed as part of the women's national sprint team for the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Tito competed for the second time in women's 4 × 400 m relay, along with her teammates Lucimar Teodoro, Maria Laura Almirão, and Emmily Pinheiro. She ran on the second leg of the second heat, with an individual-split time of 52.60 seconds. Tito and her team finished the relay in sixth place for a total time of 3:30.10, failing to advance into the final.
Few days before the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Tito was among the five Brazilian athletes who failed the competition drug test for a banned substance recombinant EPO. She served a two-year suspension by IAAF, making her ineligible to compete for other international events, including the world and national championships.