Érica de Sena

Érica Rocha de Sena (born 3 May 1985) is a female racewalker from Brazil. In the 20 km walk, she took 4th place at the 2017 World Championships, and 7th place at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the only Brazilian to win a medal at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, after inheriting the 20 km race bronze in the 2016 race, held in Rome.[2]

Érica de Sena
Personal information
Full nameÉrica Rocha de Sena
Born (1985-05-03) 3 May 1985
Camaragibe, Pernambuco[1]
Sport
Country Brazil
SportTrack and field
Medal record
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto20 km walk
2019 Lima20 km walk
World Team Championships
2016 Rome20 km walk
Updated on 21 March 2016.

Career

In the same event, Sena also has the country's best racewalking performance by a woman at the Olympic Games, with a seventh place in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games,[3] and the World Championships in Athletics, a sixth place in 2015, held in Beijing, China.[4]

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]

Personal life

She is married to an Ecuadorian race walker, Andrés Chocho.[6]

Personal bests

Road walk
  • 10 km: 43:03 min – Suzhou, 25 Sep 2017
  • 20 km: 1:26:59 hrs – London, 13 Aug 2017

Track walk
  • 5000 m: 23:10.59 min – Campinas, 7 Nov 2011
  • 10,000 m: 43:41.30 min – São Paulo, 1 Aug 2014
  • 20,000 m: 1:35:29.6 h – São Paulo, 5 Aug 2011

References
  1. Olimpíadas: Érica Sena, Cisiane Dutra, Keila Costa e Montanha representam o estado (in Portuguese). (2016-08-05). Retrieved on 2017-02-12.
  2. "20 Kilometres Race Walk Result | IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships | iaaf.org". Archived from the original on 8 May 2016.
  3. Report: women's 20km race walk – Rio 2016 Olympic Games
  4. "Women's 20 kilometres walk heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  5. "Athletics SENA Erica - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 22 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Eduardo Biscayart (3 July 2016). "Murer soars over South American record of 4.87m at Brazilian Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 5 July 2016.


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