Carolina Duarte
{{short description|Portuguese Paralympic athlete}}
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| sport = Sprints
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{{Medal|Competition|Paralympic Games}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2024 Paris|400 m T13{{cite news |title=Mais uma medalha para Portugal: Carolina Duarte é bronze nos 400 metros dos Jogos Paralímpicos |url=https://www.record.pt/modalidades/jogos-olimpicos/paralimpicos/detalhe/mais-uma-medalha-para-portugal-carolina-duarte-e-bronze-nos-400-metros-dos-jogos-paralimpicos |access-date=20 September 2024 |work=Record |date=7 September 2024 |language=pt-PT}}}}
{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}
{{Medal|Silver|2023 Paris|400 m T13}}
{{Medal|Silver|2024 Kobe|400 m T13}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold|{{nowrap|2016 Grosseto}}|100 m T13}}
{{Medal|Silver|{{nowrap|2016 Grosseto}}|200 m T13}}
{{Medal|Bronze|{{nowrap|2016 Grosseto}}|400 m T13}}
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Carolina Duarte (born 8 January 1990) is a track and field athlete from Portugal competing mainly sprint events.{{cite web|url=http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=d/athlete=125064-duarte-carolina/index.html|title=Carolina Duarte|work=european-athletics.org|accessdate=16 July 2016}} Duarte has competed in both disabled and non-disabled sporting competitions. In disability sport she competes as a T13 athlete, a classification for athletes who are visually impaired.
Athletics career
=As an athlete in non-disability events=
Duarte began her athletics career competing in mainstream track and field events. Her early personal bests, set in 2010, were all in short distance sprints, setting a time of 12.17 in the 100 metres.{{cite web|url=http://www.all-athletics.com/node/326652|title=Carolina Duarte|work=all-athletics.com|accessdate=16 July 2016|archive-date=4 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104223248/http://www.all-athletics.com/node/326652|url-status=dead}} As her career progressed she gravitated towards the 400 metres event and also competed in the 400 metres hurdles. In 2012, she was selected to join the Portugal team that competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships, competing as part of the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
=As a disability athlete=
Due to reduced vision, Duarte was able to become classified as a T13 track and field athlete. In 2016, she was selected for the Portugal national team that competed at the IPC Athletics European Championships in Grosseto.{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/grosseto-2016/ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_GR2016AT@@@@@@@ENG_number=29431.htm|title=Athlete Profile: Duarte, Carolina|work=paralympic.org|accessdate=16 July 2016}} There she competed in three events, the T13 100m, 200m and 400m sprints. In her first event, the 200 metres, she was edged into second place by France's Nantenin Keïta, who set a championship record to take the gold medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/world-european-and-championship-records-fall-day-one-grosseto-2016|title=World, European and championship records fall on day one at Grosseto 2016|work=paralympic.org|accessdate=16 July 2016}} Duarte followed this with a bronze in the 400 metres. On the penultimate day she competed in the 100 metres, and despite not running a personal best, Duarte set a championship record with a time of 12.87s.{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/six-more-golds-great-britain-and-russia-bulgaria-s-ruzhdi-ruzhdi-and-russia-s-sofia-oksem-throw|title=Six more golds for Great Britain and Russia as Bulgaria’s Ruzhdi Ruzhdi and Russia’s Sofia Oksem throw new world records at Grosseto 2016|date=15 June 2016|work=paralympic.org|accessdate=16 July 2016}}
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Category:Portuguese female sprinters
Category:Paralympic athletes for Portugal
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Portugal
Category:Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships
Category:Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships