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She has recently won gold medals for long jump at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, raising the national record to 6.89 m at the latter
Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 eleven years old. At the Sydney Olympics, Gomes was the São-Tomé flag carrier in the opening ceremony
In Madrid, she became the first Portuguese athlete ever to reach the seven metres distance in the long jump, by jumping 7.01m. In Valencia she won gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2008, by jumping 7.00m.
On August 19, at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, a top-favorite for the gold medal, in peak physical condition and having dominated the season, she unexpectedely fouled on her first two attempts and then stutter-stepped on her final try jumping a mere 6.29m., thus failing to qualify to the final.
On July 29, at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Herculis, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, she jumps 7.12m., a new national record and 2008 world´s best mark.
On July 22, she is the winner of the IAAF Super Grand Prix DN Galan, Stockholm, Sweden with a new national record of 7.04m
Before changing nationality she set the current São Tomé and Príncipe records in 100 metres hurdles, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin throw and heptathlon
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