Terezinha Aparecida Guilhermina . He was born in Betim , Minas Gerais , Brazil , on October 3, 1978 . Brazilian Paralympic Athlete in Athletics , who specializes in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter sprints. She is the fastest blind athlete in the world, who has set three world records. He suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, which allows him to see, barely, some bursts of light.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Your coach and guide
- 1 Sports career
- 3 Record
- 4 Exhibition race with Usain Bolt
- 5 Guilhermina Guide
- 6 Disease
- 7 Contributions to visually impaired children
- 8 How did athletics come to Guilhermina?
- 9 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born in Betim , Minas Gerais , Brazil , on October 3, 1978 , into a humble family. He has twelve siblings, five of them also have visual difficulties. He has a congenital deficiency, retinitis pigmentosa, which caused him to lose the little vision he had. Due to visual impairment (blindness), class T1 or T2 Paralympic runners are included in class.
Your coach and guide
He is trained by coach Amauri Verissimo, who also trains sprinter Lucas Prado. Your guide is the athlete Guilherme Santana.
Sports career
- In 2006 , he was elected Paralympic Athlete of the Year, the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).
- In 2007 , he took the oath of Olympian athlete at the opening of the 2007 Parapan American Games .
- Gold medal in the 100 meters, 200, 400 and 4×400 meters in shallow waters IBSA Parapan Am Games in Sao Paulo , 2005
- Gold medal in five of the six stages Tour Lotteries of Athletics Box Paralympics 2005
- Undefeated champion in the 100 meters, 200 and 400 meters of the Loterías Caixa Circuito board , 2006 and 2007
- World champion in the 200 meters in Assen , the Netherlands , 2006
- World record holder in the 400 meters, Curitiba 2007
- Silver medal in the 400 meters at the IAAF Golden League in Paris , France , 2007
- Gold medal and world record in the 100 meters, gold in the 200 meters and 400 meters in the IBSA World Championship , in Sao Paulo, 2007
- Gold medal in the 100 meters and 200 meters, silver in the 400 meters with a new world record in the T11 category, Parapan American Games Rio 2007
- Silver medal in the 100 meters and 200 meters at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester , England , 2008
- Gold medal in the 400 meters on the IAAF Golden League Stage in Paris, France, 2008
- Gold medal in the 200 meters in Beijing 2008.
- Olympic champion of the 100, 200 and 400 meters in London 2012
Record
He runs in the totally visually impaired category (T11) and holds the world record for 100 meters with 12.01 seconds.
Exhibition race with Usain Bolt
Bolt, world record holder, participated in the exhibition as part of the preparations for the Mano a Mano challenge, a 100-meter race that takes place in Rio de Janeiro as part of the preparation for the Rio 2016 Games . Bolt agreed to be Guilhermina’s guide in a 50-meter race. “He was nervous, insecure, he was afraid of disturbing my step, but really what happened is a gift from God, something motivating. He asked what my time was and was surprised. I told him not to use force with his arm and to keep on straight line”. Bolt and Guilhermina finished the test hugged and cheered by dozens of children invited for the occasion at the Jockey Club in Rio de Janeiro,
Guilhermina Guide
Guilhermina is guided in the competitions by the sprinter Guilherme Santana , with whom he trains in the city of Maringá , in the interior of the southern state of Paraná , knowing that to exercise this function it is necessary to be a first-class athlete who cannot be slower than Guilhermina
Disease
He suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa , which allows him to see just a few bursts of light, his deficiency became evident when he went to nursery school. Five of his twelve siblings are blind or have severe vision problems, as part of a genetic family problem. His grandparents and his parents were cousins.
Contributions to visually impaired children
The Olympic prestige led Guilhermina to open an institute to support children with visual impairments in Maringá.
How did athletics come to Guilhermina?
When he finished his studies in Administration at a Vocational Training Center, he couldn’t find a job in that sector, so he thought about trying to register to swim as a disabled athlete, because he already had a swimsuit. But by then he already wanted to run. At that time, he participated in a race for disabled athletes in Betim, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte .
When he started running, he managed to do a 5-kilometer run. After that race, the Pampulha Round , a traditional race of 18 kilometers in an hour and a half, finished , a very good mark. Later, I can participate in races of 21 kilometers, the distance of an international half marathon.
