Alessandra Resende

{{short description|Brazilian javelin thrower}}

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| fullname = Alessandra Nobre Resende

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|3|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil

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| weight = {{convert|69|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| event = Javelin throw

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| pb = Javelin throw: 59.58 m (2007)

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Ibero-American Championships}}

{{MedalGold |2006 Ponce|Javelin throw}}

{{MedalGold |2008 Iquique|Javelin throw}}

{{MedalCompetition|South American Championships}}

{{MedalGold |2005 Cali|Javelin throw}}

{{MedalGold |2006 Tunja|Javelin throw}}

{{MedalGold |2007 São Paulo|Javelin throw}}

{{MedalGold |2009 Lima|Javelin throw}}

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Alessandra Nobre Resende (born March 5, 1975) is a Brazilian javelin thrower.{{cite sports-reference|title = Alessandra Resende|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/alessandra-resende-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032224/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/alessandra-resende-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 16 December 2012}} She is a two-time Ibero-American and a four-time South American champion for her category. Resende, however, narrowly missed out of the medal podium, when she placed fifth in the final at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, with a best throw of 57.95 metres.{{cite news|last=Biscayart|first=Eduardo|title=Cuba's five gold medal party – Pan Am Games, Day 5|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/cubas-five-gold-medal-party-pan-am-games-da|publisher=IAAF|date=28 July 2007|accessdate=15 December 2012}}

At age thirty-three, Resende made her Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's javelin throw. She threw the javelin into the field at 56.53 metres, finishing twenty-seventh overall in the qualifying rounds.{{cite web|title=Women's Javelin Throw Qualifying Rounds |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW053900/standings.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=15 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731000349/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW053900/standings.html |archivedate=31 July 2012 }}