Sandra-Helena Ribeiro Tavares Homo (born 29 May 1982) is a Portuguese pole vaulter. Tavares represented Portugal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's pole vault. She successfully cleared a height of 4.30 metres, finishing nineteenth overall in the qualifying rounds, and tying her position with Greece's Afroditi Skafida, and Poland's Joanna Piwowarska.
Her two sisters, Maria Leonor Tavares and Elisabete Tavares Ansel also competed in the pole vault.
Competition record Representing 1999European Junior ChampionshipsRiga, Latvia14th (q)3.55 m2001European Junior ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy6th3.90 m2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland9th3.80 mUniversiadeDaegu, South Korea8th4.10 m2004Ibero-American ChampionshipsHuelva, Spain5th4.10 m2005European Indoor ChampionshipsMadrid, Spain18th (q)4.15 mUniversiadeİzmir, Turkey –NM2007UniversiadeBangkok, Thailand11th4.10 m2008Olympic GamesBeijing, China19th (q)4.30 m2009World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany26th (q)4.25 m2010European ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain24th (q)3.95 m
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile