Keila Costa

{{Short description|Brazilian athlete (born 1983)}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| image = Osaka07 Keila Costa.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Costa at the World Championships in 2007

| fullname = Keila da Silva da Costa

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|2|6}}

| birth_place = Abreu e Lima, Pernambuco

| height = 1.70 m

| weight = 62 kg

| country = {{BRA}}

| sport = Track and field

| event = Triple jump

| coach =

| highestranking =

| pb =

| show-medals = no

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport | Women's athletics}}

{{Medal|Country | {{BRA}} }}

{{Medal|Competition|World Indoor Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze | 2010 Doha |Long jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|Pan American Games}}

{{Medal|Silver | 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Silver | 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Silver | 2015 Toronto | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|South American Games}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2002 Manaus | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2002 Manaus | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2014 Santiago | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2014 Santiago | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|Military World Games}}

{{Medal|Gold| 2011 Rio de Janeiro | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Silver| 2011 Rio de Janeiro | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|Lusophony Games}}

{{Medal|Silver| 2009 Lisbon | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|Ibero-American Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2006 Ponce|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2004 Huelva|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|South American Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold |2001 Manaus|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2003 Barquisimeto|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2003 Barquisimeto|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2007 São Paulo|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2009 Lima|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2013 Cartagena|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2005 Cali|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2005 Cali|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2007 São Paulo|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2011 Buenos Aires|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2011 Buenos Aires|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Silver|2013 Cartagena|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Junior Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze |2002 Kingston|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|South American U-23 Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2004 Barquisimeto | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold | 2004 Barquisimeto | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|Pan American Junior Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2001 Santa Fé|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2001 Santa Fé|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|South American Junior Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold |2000 São Leopoldo |Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2001 Santa Fé|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2001 Santa Fé|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Bronze |1999 Concepción | Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition|South American Youth Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold |2000 Bogotá | Long jump}}

{{Medal|Gold |2000 Bogotá | Triple jump}}

| updated = 19 October 2015

}}

Keila da Silva Costa (born 6 February 1983) is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in three Olympic Games, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.58 metres, and has 6.88 metres in the long jump. Both results were achieved in 2007.

Early career

She was born in Abreu e Lima near Recife,{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/keila-costa-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032207/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/keila-costa-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Keila Costa (full name: Keila da Silva da Costa) |access-date=4 April 2009}} and took up athletics at the age of nine.{{cite news |first=Eduardo |last=Biscayart |title=I always had the dream of reaching 15m – Keila Costa |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=42677.html |work=IAAF.org |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=4 April 2009 }}{{Citation

| title = A Equipe - Atletas Feminino - Perfil - Keila Costa

| url = http://www.clubedeatletismo.org.br/bmf-bovespa/feminino/artigo246028-1.asp

| publisher = Clube de Atletismo BM&F Bovespa

| language = pt

| access-date = April 17, 2014

| archive-date = April 19, 2014

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140419025351/http://www.clubedeatletismo.org.br/bmf-bovespa/feminino/artigo246028-1.asp

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}} It was not the easiest of things to become an international athlete, as the city of Abreu e Lima did not sport a rubber track; also she came from a "humble family".{{cite news |first=Víctor |last=Pochat |title=Focus on Athletes - Keila da Silva COSTA |url=http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/brazil/keila-costa-177990#biography |work=IAAF.org |date=4 March 2008 |access-date=27 January 2015 }}

As a junior athlete she competed in two World Junior Championships. At the 2000 edition in Santiago, Chile she finished eleventh in the triple jump. Her personal best at the time was 13.23 metres. In 2001, she broke the 14-metre barrier as she improved to 14.00 metres at a meet in São Caetano do Sul.{{World Athletics}}. Retrieved on 4 April 2009. This was a new South American junior record.{{ref label|rec|i|}} In 2002 the World Junior Championships were held in Kingston, Jamaica. Here she finished ninth in the long jump and won the bronze medal in the triple jump. She was the first Brazilian to win a medal at the World Junior Championships. She had not improved in the latter event, but her personal best in the long jump was 6.46 metres, achieved in September 2002 in Rio de Janeiro.

In the following seasons, she rarely competed internationally, except for a participation at the 2004 Olympic Games where she failed to reach the final. She was injured for most of 2003. By June 2005 she had improved to 6.63 metres in the long jump, and in February 2006 she improved to 14.17 metres in the triple jump. In March 2006 she competed in triple jump at the World Indoor Championships and her first international triple jump event since the 2002 World Juniors—but even though she approached her maximum level with a jump of 14.11 metres, she again failed to reach the final. In late 2006, she represented the Americas (except for the United States) in long jump at the World Cup event, finishing sixth.

Maurren Higa Maggi later captured the South American triple jump record, and also dominated in national championships. Costa won her first Brazilian title in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/bra.htm|title=Brazilian Championships|work=GBR Athletics|publisher=Athletics Weekly|access-date=4 April 2009}} On the regional level, Costa won five medals at the South American Championships in 2001, 2003 and 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/sacw.htm|title=South American Championships (Women)|work=GBR Athletics|publisher=Athletics Weekly|access-date=4 April 2009}}

International breakthrough

Her definite international breakthrough came in 2007. She improved both her personal best jumps with good margins. In May in Belém she jumped 6.88 metres, and in São Paulo in June she jumped 14.57 metres for a continental and championship record at the 2007 South American Championships in Athletics. She also won the silver medal in the long jump behind Maggi.Biscayart, Eduardo (2007-06-10). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=39016.html 14.57 Area Triple Jump Record for Costa as South American Champs finish]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-22. In May she had become the first South American woman to break the 15-metre-barrier. However, her 15.10 m jump in Uberlândia, Brazil had a tail wind of 2.7 m/second, and thus could not be accepted.{{cite web|url=http://www.alltime-athletics.com/wtripleno.htm|title=All-time women's best triple jump—wind-assisted jumps|publisher=Track and Field all-time Performances Homepage|date=26 February 2009|access-date=4 April 2009}} When jumping 14.57, she established a new South American record.{{cite news |first=Eduardo |last=Biscayart |title=14.57 Area Triple Jump Record for Costa as South American Champs finish |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=39016.html |work=IAAF.org |date=10 June 2007 |access-date=5 September 2007 }} At the 2007 Pan American Games she won two silver medals, and at the 2007 World Championships in August she finished ninth in the triple and seventh in the long jump competition. At the World Athletics Final towards the end of the season, she finished sixth in the triple and fifth in the long jump.

In 2008, she did not compete in the triple jump at all. In the long jump, though, she finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships and eleventh at the Olympic Games. Her season's best was 6.79 metres, achieved in June in São Paulo. Her South American record still stands.{{cite web |title=Triple Jump Records |url=http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/records/inout=O/discType=5/disc=TJ/detail.html |publisher=IAAF |access-date=4 April 2009 }}

In the 2009 season, she won the Troféu Brasil Caixa de Atletismo with a season's best of 6.79 m, putting an end to rival Maurren Maggi's decade-long dominance of the championships.Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-08). [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH09/news/kind=100/newsid=50985.html Murer vaults to world leading 4.82m at Brazilian nationals]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. She became the continental long jump champion for a second time at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics.Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-22). [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH09/news/kind=100/newsid=51265.html Brazil repeats triumph at South American Championships – Day 3 report]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24. The long jump at the 2009 Lusophony Games was a head-to-head with Portugal's Naide Gomes and Costa took the silver medal, three centimetres back with a mark of 6.71 m. Her focus turned to the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but she failed to record a mark in her three attempts in the long jump final.Mulkeen, Jon (2010-08-23). [http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=108/newsid=54015.html Event Report - Women's Long Jump - Final] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827150420/http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind%3D108/newsid%3D54015.html |date=2009-08-27 }}. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-22. She closed the season with a seventh-place finish at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final.

She opened 2010 with her first podium finish on the global stage: competing in the long jump at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, she twice jumped 6.63 m to secure the bronze medal behind Brittney Reese and Gomes.Ramsak, Bob (2010-03-14). [http://www.iaaf.org/WIC10/news/kind=108/newsid=56103.html EVENT REPORT - WOMEN's Long Jump Final]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-22. She became a double Brazilian champion later that year with victories in both the long jump and triple jump at the Troféu Brasil Caixa de Atletismo.Biscayart, Eduardo (2010-09-20). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=58361.html Murer vaults 4.70m at Brazilian championships]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-22.

Personal life

Costa has a relationship with Panamanian Olympic champion in the long jump, Irving Saladino. The two met at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Costa stands {{height|m=1.70}} tall, and weighs approximately {{convert|137|lb|kg}}.

Notes

{{note|rec|i|}} Note that this is sometimes given, wrongly, as being a South American record. The best South American result at the time belonged to Luciana dos Santos, who jumped 14.01 metres in 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.alltime-athletics.com/wtripleno.htm|title=World women's all-time best triple jump|publisher=Track and Field all-time Performances Homepage|date=30 June 2001|access-date=4 April 2009}}

Personal bests

class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
EventResultVenueDate
colspan="4"|Outdoor
100 m12.43 s (wind: +0.5 m/s){{flagicon|BRA}} Belém6 May 2005
Long jump6.88 m (wind: -0.1 m/s){{flagicon|BRA}} Belém20 May 2007
Triple jump14.58 m (wind: +2.0 m/s){{flagicon|BRA}} São Paulo7 Jun 2013
colspan="4"|Indoor
Long jump6.64 m{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris-Bercy13 Feb 2009
Triple jump14.11 m{{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow10 Mar 2006

Achievements

{{AchievementTable|Event=yes|class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%;}}
bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="6"|Representing {{BRA}}
1999

|South American Junior Championships

|Concepción, Chile

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|12.62 m

rowspan=4|2000

|South American Junior Championships

|São Leopoldo, Brazil

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.65 m

World Junior Championships

|Santiago, Chile

|11th

|Triple jump

|12.97 m (wind: +0.9 m/s)

rowspan=2|South American Youth Championships

|rowspan=2|Bogotá, Colombia

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.05 m A

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.04 m A

rowspan=5|2001

|South American Championships

|Manaus, Brazil

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.61 m

rowspan=2|South American Junior Championships

|rowspan=2|Santa Fe, Argentina

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.20 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.66 m

rowspan=2|Pan American Junior Championships

|rowspan=2|Santa Fe, Argentina

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump

|5.97m

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|13.55 m

rowspan=4|2002

|rowspan=2|World Junior Championships

|rowspan=2|Kingston, Jamaica

|17th (q)

|Long jump

|5.98 m (wind: +1.1 m/s)

bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|13.70 m (wind: +0.5 m/s)

rowspan=2|South American Junior Championships /
South American Games

|rowspan=2|Belém, Brazil

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.37 m (wind: +1.4 m/s)

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.78 m (wind: -0.5 m/s)

rowspan=2|2003

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Barquisimeto, Venezuela

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.30 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.62 m

rowspan=5|2004

|rowspan=2|South American U23 Championships

|rowspan=2|Barquisimeto, Venezuela

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.19 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.62 m (wind: +0.3 m/s)

rowspan=2|Ibero-American Championships

|rowspan=2|Huelva, Spain

|6th

|Long jump

|6.27 m

bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|13.80 m

Olympic Games

|Athens, Greece

|31st (q)

|Long jump

|6.33 m

rowspan=2|2005

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Cali, Colombia

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.32 m

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|13.75 m

rowspan=3|2006

|World Indoor Championships

|Moscow, Russia

|10th (q)

|Triple jump

|14.11 m

Ibero-American Championships

|Ponce, Puerto Rico

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.54 m

World Cup

|Athens, Greece

|7th

|Long jump

|6.33 m (wind: +0.2 m/s)

rowspan=8|2007

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|São Paulo, Brazil

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.83 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|14.57 m

rowspan=2|Pan American Games

|rowspan=2|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.73 m

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|14.38 m

rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Osaka, Japan

|7th

|Long jump

|6.69 m

9th

|Triple jump

|14.40 m

rowspan=2|World Athletics Final

|rowspan=2|Stuttgart, Germany

|5th

|Long jump

|6.46 m (wind: +0.4 m/s)

6th

|Triple jump

|14.13 m (wind: +0.5 m/s)

rowspan=2|2008

|World Indoor Championships

|Valencia, Spain

|7th

|Long jump

|6.48 m

Olympic Games

|Beijing, China

|11th

|Long jump

|6.43 m

rowspan=4|2009

|South American Championships

|Lima, Peru

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.62 m

Lusophony Games

|Lisbon, Portugal

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.71 m (w)

World Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|7th (q)

|Long jump

|6.66 mNo mark in the final

World Athletics Final

|Thessaloniki, Greece

|7th

|Long jump

|6.53 m w (wind: +3.1 m/s)

2010

|World Indoor Championships

|Doha, Qatar

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump

|6.63 m

rowspan=9|2011

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Buenos Aires, Argentina

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.45 m

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|13.96 m

rowspan=2|Military World Games

|rowspan=2|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.41 m (wind: +0.1 m/s)

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|14.11 m (wind: +0.0 m/s)

Universiade

|Shenzhen, China

|11th

|Long jump

|6.19 m

rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Daegu, South Korea

|24th (q)

|Long jump

|6.26 m

12th

|Triple jump

|13.72 m

rowspan=2|Pan American Games

|rowspan=2|Guadalajara, Mexico

|5th

|Long jump

|6.37 m

4th

|Triple jump

|14.01 m

rowspan=2|2012

|World Indoor Championships

|Istanbul, Turkey

|11th (q)

|Long jump

|6.45 m

Olympic Games

|London, United Kingdom

|20th (q)

|Triple jump

|13.84 m

rowspan=3|2013

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Cartagena, Colombia

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.49 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|14.21 m (w)

World Championships

|Moscow, Russia

|13th (q)

|Triple jump

|13.82 m

rowspan=4|2014

|World Indoor Championships

|Sopot, Poland

|10th (q)

|Triple jump

|13.64 m

rowspan=2|South American Games

|rowspan=2|Santiago, Chile

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.35 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.65 m

Pan American Sports Festival

|Ciudad de México, México

|4th

|Triple jump

|13.95m A (wind: +0.5 m/s)

rowspan=3|2015

|Pan American Games

|Toronto, Canada

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|14.50 m (w)

rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Beijing, China

|26th (q)

|Long jump

|6.32 m

12th

|Triple jump

|13.90 m

rowspan=5|2016

|World Indoor Championships

|Portland, United States

|9th

|Triple jump

|13.94 m

rowspan=2|Ibero-American Championships

|rowspan=2|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.43 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|14.01 m

rowspan=2|Olympic Games

|rowspan=2|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|38th (q)

|Long jump

|5.86 m

24th (q)

|Triple jump

|13.78 m

2019

|South American Championships

|Lima, Peru

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.38 m

2021

|South American Championships

|Guayaquil, Ecuador

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.67 m

References

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