Ana Carolina Azevedo

Ana Carolina de Jesus Azevedo (born 19 May 1998) is a Brazilian sprinter. She is the South American record holder over 60 metres, both indoors and outdoors.

Biography In 2020, Azevedo was named Best Female Athlete by the Brazilian Athletics Confederation. Azevedo completed in the 200 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she ran a time of 23.20 sec in her qualifying heat.

In November 2023, she won a bronze medal in the 200 meters at the Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.

She competed in the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow and ran a personal best time of 7.50 seconds. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris over 200 metres. She also competed in the 100 metres race at the Games.

She ran a lifetime best of 7.16 seconds to win the gold medal ahead of Colombian Marlet Ospino at the 2025 South American Indoor Championships in Cochabamba in February 2025. In September 2025, she competed in the 100 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2026, Azevedo recently 7.05 for the 60 metres, a South American record, in an outdoor meeting in São Paulo. In February 2026, she set a new South American indoor record to win the gold medal in the 60 metres in 7.09 seconds at the South American Indoor Championships, bettering the record of Vitória Cristina Rosa from 2022.

Having equaled her personal best in the semi-finals, Azevedo set a 100m championship record and personal best with 11.08 in the final to win the gold medal at the 2026 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Peru. Later at the championships, she won further gold medals over 200 metres, and with the Brazilian mixed 4 x 100 metres relay team. Selected for the inaugural 2026 Pan American Championships in Athletics in Medellín, she placed second in the 100 metres final, running 11.16 seconds to finish runner-up to Canadian Sade McCreath.

Personal bests 60 m: 7.05 s (wind: -0.0 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 18 February 2026 100 m: 11.12 s (wind: +1.4 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 31 Jun 2025 200 m: 22.91 s (wind: +0.2 m/s) – São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, 27 Apr 2024

Indoor

60 m: 7.09 s – Cochabamba , Bolivia, 28 February 2026

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