Izabela Campos

Izabela Campos

Rio 2016
Personal information
Full name	Izabela Silva Campos
Born	(1981-04-11) 11 April 1981 (age 43) Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Brazil
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability class	F11, F12
Event(s)	Shot Put, and Discus
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2012, 2016, 2020
Medal record Paralympic Games 2016 Rio Discus throw F11 Parapan American Games 2023 Santiago Discus throw F11

Izabela Silva Campos[a] (born 11 April 1981) is a Brazilian visually impaired F11/12 shot putter and discus thrower. She won a bronze medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[1] She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's discus throw.[2]

Personal life

Campos lost her sight when she was five after having measles.[3]

Career

Campos competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in the women's shot put. That event was won by Assunta Legnante. She won a silver in the javelin.[4] At the 2016 Paralympics in Rio she threw her discus 32.60 m to get a bronze medal. She missed out to Liangmin Zhang (36.65 m) from China and Tang Hongxia (35.01 m).[5]

She competed at the 2019 Parapan American Games, winning gold in Discus, and bronze in Javelin, and Shot put.[6] She came twelfth in the shot put at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai but she took the bronze in the F11 Women's discus throw. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's discus throw.[2] Campos trains with other leading athletes at the Federal University of Minas. Gerais.[7] At the 2023 Parapan American Games Brazil sent a large team of 123 women and 190 men.[8] Campos took a gold in the F11 Discus and shot put.

In 2024 she competed in Paris at her fourth paralympics. Brazil sent four athletes: Campos, shot putter Ana Caroline da Silva, Arthur Xavier Ribeiro and Ana Carolina Silva de Moura.[9]

Notes

1. This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Silva and the second or paternal family name is Campos.

References

1. "Izabela Campos". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
2. Gerais, Universidade Federal de Minas (21 June 2021). "Atleta do CTE-UFMG vai disputar os Jogos Paralímpicos de Tóquio". Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 10 August 2021.
3. "Izabela Silva Campos". Toronto2015.org. 2015 Parapan American Games. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
4. Huimin Zhong | Gold Women’s Javelin F11 | Final | London 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, retrieved 16 December 2023
5. "Izabela Campos conquista o bronze no lançamento de disco" [Izabela Campos wins bronze at the discus]. gazetaesportiva.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 September 2016.
6. "Para athletics | Athlete Profile: SILVA CAMPOS Izabela - ParaPan American Games Lima 2019". wrsd.lima2019.pe. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
7. Gerais, Universidade Federal de Minas (17 November 2023). "Seis atletas do CTE vão competir no Parapan 2023". Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2023.
8. "Confira todos os medalhistas do Brasil nos Jogos Parapan-Americanos de Santiago 2023". CPB (in Brazilian Portuguese). 27 November 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
9. Gerais, Universidade Federal de Minas (25 July 2024). "Quatro atletas do CTE disputarão os Jogos de Paris". Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 29 January 2025.

External links

• Izabela Campos at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (alternate link, alternate link 2)
• Izabela Campos at the International Paralympic Committee
• Izabela Silva Campos at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
• Izabela Silva Campos at the Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro (in Portuguese)