Lucimara da Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lucimara da Silva

Brazilian heptathlete

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1985

Place of Birth: Lucélia, São Paulo, Brazil

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Lucimara Silvestre da Silva (born 10 July 1985 in Lucélia, São Paulo) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon.
She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007.
Her personal best of 6076 points is the South American record for the event. Following her first national title in 2005, da Silva emerged in 2007; she won the South American Championships with a meet record score and took the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.
She repeated as the continental champion in 2009, but was stripped of the title and banned for two years after she failed a drug test for the banned substance Erythropoietin (EPO).