Érica de Sena
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Érica Rocha de Sena |
| Born | 3 May 1985 Camaragibe, Pernambuco[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Sport | Athletics |
Medal record | |
| Updated on 19 April 2025 | |
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Érica Rocha de Sena (born 3 May 1985) is a female racewalker from Brazil. In the 20 km walk, she took 4th place at the 2017 World Championships, and 7th place at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the only Brazilian to win a medal at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, after inheriting the 20 km race bronze in the 2016 race, held in Rome.[2]
Career
In the same event, Sena also has the country's best racewalking performance by a woman at the Olympic Games, with a seventh place in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games,[3] and the World Championships in Athletics, a fourth place in both 2017 and 2019.[4]
She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where Sena was third with just 400 meters to go before she got her third caution and was removed from the course for two minutes, making her lose a medal and finish 11th.[5][6] Afterwards she had a son with husband and coach Andres Chocho, and only returned to competition in 2023, and in just four competitions qualified for the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2024 Summer Olympics.[7]
Personal life
She is married to an Ecuadorian race walker, Andrés Chocho.[8]
Personal bests
Road walk
- 10 km: 43:03 min –
Suzhou, 25 Sep 2017 - 20 km: 1:26:59 hrs –
London, 13 Aug 2017
Track walk
References
- ↑ Olimpíadas: Érica Sena, Cisiane Dutra, Keila Costa e Montanha representam o estado (in Portuguese). (5 August 2016). Retrieved on 2017-02-12.
- ↑ "20 Kilometres Race Walk Result | IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships | iaaf.org". Archived from the original on 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Report: women's 20km race walk – Rio 2016 Olympic Games
- ↑ "Erica SENA". IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ↑ "Athletics SENA Erica". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ↑ Erica Sena leva punição a 400m do fim e vê escapar bronze inédito na marcha atlética
- ↑ Mundial de Atletismo 2023: Érica Sena recomeça após desilusão em Tóquio e maternidade
- ↑ Eduardo Biscayart (3 July 2016). "Murer soars over South American record of 4.87m at Brazilian Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
External links
- Erica Sena at World Athletics
- Erica Sena at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- Erica Sena at Olympics.com
- Erica Sena at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)
- Erica Sena at Olympedia
- Erica Sena at InterSportStats
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Pernambuco
- Brazilian women race walkers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Brazil
- Pan American Games athletes for Brazil
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Brazil
- South American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- South American Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 South American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen
- People from Camaragibe
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic women race walkers
- Brazilian athletics biography stubs