Vicente de Lima

Vicente Lenílson de Lima (born 4 June 1977) is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4 × 100 metres relay.

De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The 37.90 seconds were not enough to beat the 37.61 seconds of the United States, but De Lima, Edson Ribeiro, André Domingos and Claudinei da Silva managed to finish before the Cuban team who timed 38.04 seconds. At the 2003 World Championships he and his teammates won the silver medal at the 4 × 100 metres relay. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 3rd in his heat, just 0.06 after Usain Bolt and 0.02 after Daniel Bailey in a time of 10.26 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he ran slower with 10.31, resulting in a sixth place and elimination for the semi-finals.

Personal bests 100 m: 10.13 s (wind: +0.7 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 6 June 2004 100 m: 10.08 s (wind: +3.0 m/s) – Guatemala City, Guatemala, 11 May 2002 200 m: 20.39 s (wind: -1.0 m/s) – Belém, Brazil, 23 May 2004 37.90 s – Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2000

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