Carmo Tavares

{{short description|Portuguese middle-distance runner}}

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{{Portuguese name|Carmo Sánchez|Tavares de Miranda}}

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María do Carmo Sánchez Tavares de Miranda (born 27 April 1974 in Lisbon){{Cite web |date=2021-04-27 |title=27 de Abril: Aniversário de Maria do Carmo Tavares/Campeã nacional 47 vezes! |url=https://revistaatletismo.com/27-de-abril-aniversario-de-maria-do-carmo-tavares-campea-nacional-47-vezes/ |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Revista Atletismo |language=pt-PT}} is a Portuguese middle-distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.{{cite sports-reference|title = Carmo Tavares|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/carmo-tavares-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418103239/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/carmo-tavares-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 16 January 2013}} At age thirty-four, Tavares made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 800 metres. She ran in the sixth and final heat against six other athletes, including Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei, who eventually won the silver medal in the final. She finished the race in sixth place by more than a second behind Italy's Elisa Cusma Piccione, with a time of 2:01.91. Tavares, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed twenty-first overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.{{cite web|title=Women's 800m Round 1 – Heat 6 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW008900/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=16 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821020652/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW008900/index.html |archivedate=21 August 2012 }}