Elisangela Adriano

Elisângela Maria Adriano (born July 27, 1972 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja. Her personal best discus throw is 61.96 metres, achieved in May 1998 in São Leopoldo. In 1999 she was suspended by the IAAF for a two-year period, but she was later early reinstated. She competed in both the discus and shot put at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, without reaching the final in either event. She also competed in the discus at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

She won the discus and shot put events at the 2009 Brazilian national championships. She holds the South American record in both events. She won her seventh continental discus title at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics with a championship record of 61 metres. She also won the shot put silver medal behind Chilean Natalia Ducó. She added the 2009 Lusophony Games shot put gold to her list of honours the following month. In the 2010 season, she won the discus gold at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships and later gained her fourteenth national title in the discus at the Troféu Brasil de Atletismo.

She is the Brazilian record holder in the discus throw and also holds the shot put national record both indoors and out.




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Full name: Adriano Maria Elisângela
Date of birth: 27/07/1972
Place of birth: São Paulo (SP)
Height: 1.80 m
Weight: 96 kg
Residence: São Paulo (SP)
Club: BM & F / Sao Caetano
Proof: pitches for weight and hard
Participations in Olympics: Atlanta and Athens-1996-2004
Campaign in Athens: 18th place in shot put and 13th place in the discus thrower
Major achievements: Gold (disc) at the Winnipeg Pan-1999, silver (weight) in the Santo Domingo Pan-2003
Record: South American weight (19.30 m) and disk (61.96 m)

Vivian Chukwuemeka

Vivian Chukwuemeka (born May 4, 1975) is a Nigerian shot putter. She also competes in discus throw and hammer throw, but not on world level.

She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Her personal best throw is 18.43 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut. This is the African record.

She graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Social Work.

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Full name: Vivian Peters-Chukwuemeka
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (102 kg)
Born: May 4, 1975 in Kwale, OviaSouth-West, Edo, Nigeria
Affiliations: NCSDC, Abuja (NGR)
Country: NGR Nigeria

Tamara Press

Tamara Natanovna Press (born 10 May 1937 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s. She competed for VSS Trud. Together with her younger sister Irina Press, who was also a track athlete, she was half of the "Press Sisters", a duo who won almost everything that there was to win in track and field, except for distance running.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Tamara won the gold medal in the shot put and the silver medal in the discus. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, she won the gold medal in both events. In the shot put and in the discus throw she set six world records.

Tamara was also successful in the European championships. In 1958 in Stockholm she was third in the shot put, and in 1962 in Belgrade she was the European champion in the shot put as well as the discus.

Questions regarding gender
It was said of both sisters that their gender could not be determined. Some even thought that they might be hermaphrodites — still another opinion was that they were being injected with male hormones in order to make them stronger. Detractors called them the "Press Brothers". After gender verification for all international sporting female events was made mandatory in 1966 (curtailed in Sydney in 2000), both vanished from the sporting scene.

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Full name: Tamara Natanovna Press
Gender: Female
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (102 kg)
Born: May 10, 1937 in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Affiliations: Trud Leningrad, St. Petersburg (RUS)
Country: URS Soviet Union