Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento OIH (born 10 December 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira) is a middle-distance runner from Portugal.
Biography Sacramento won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships.
Sacramento won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long-distance running since. Sacramento has run under 2 minutes for 800 m and 4 minutes for 1500 m many times, both of which marks are thought of as benchmarks of world class running.
Sacramento competes for the Portuguese club Maratona Clube de Portugal but lives in Madrid. Her family is of Sao Tome origin. A track was named in her honour in Portugal.
Sacramento won the inaugural edition of the Oeiras International Cross Country race in 2000.Atletismo: Carla Sacramento vence I Crosse de Oeiras. Record (2002-02-13). Retrieved on 2009-11-22.
Major achievements Representing 1988World Junior ChampionshipsSudbury, Canada11th (sf)800 m2:07.241989European Junior ChampionshipsVaraždin, Yugoslavia4th800 m2:04.589th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:43.681990World Junior ChampionshipsPlovdiv, Bulgaria4th800 m2:04.834th1500 m4:15.29Ibero-American ChampionshipsManaus, Brazil4th800m2:04.853rd1500m4:15.061992European Indoor ChampionshipsGenoa, Italy4th800 m2:02.90 –1500 mDNFOlympic GamesBarcelona, Spain14th (sf)800 m2:02.8516th (sf)1500 m4:05.541993World Indoor ChampionshipsToronto, Canada7th1500 m4:13.41World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden26th (h)800 m2:03.7411th1500 m4:09.151994European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France3rd800 m2:01.12European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland6th800m2:00.016th1500m4:20.621995World Indoor ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain2nd1500 m4:13.02World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden3rd1500 m4:03.791996European Indoor ChampionshipsStockholm, Sweden1st1500 m4:08.95Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States6th1500 m4:03.911997World Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France5th1500 m4:06.33World ChampionshipsAthens, Greece1st1500 m4:04.24UniversiadeCatania, Italy2nd1500 m4:10.401998Ibero-American ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal1st1500 m4:17.43European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary2nd1500 m4:12.621999World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain5th1500 m4:01.292000Olympic GamesSydney, Australia10th1500 m4:11.152001World Indoor ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal4th1500 m4:11.76World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada4th1500 m4:03.96Goodwill GamesBrisbane, Australia3rdMile4:39.182002European Indoor ChampionshipsVienna, Austria2nd3000 m8:53.96European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany12th1500 m4:17.012003World ChampionshipsParis, France21st (sf)1500 m4:13.142004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece22nd (sf)1500 m4:10.85
In addition, she finished in the top ten at the World Cross Country Championships.
Personal bests 400 m 54.07 (1997) 800 m 1:58.94 (1997) 1500 m 3:57.71 (1998) 3000 m 8:30.22 (1999) 5000 m 15:52.54 (2000) 10 km 33:46(1997)
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