Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento OIH (born 10 December 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira) is a middle distance runner from Portugal. Biography Sacramento won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships. Sacramento won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long distance running since. Sacramento has run under 2 minutes for 800 m and 4 minutes for 1500 m many times, both of which marks are thought of as benchmarks of world class running. Sacramento competes for the Portuguese club Maratona Clube de Portugal but lives in Madrid. Her family is of Sao Tome origin. A track was named in her honour in Portugal. Sacramento won the inaugural edition of the Oeiras International Cross Country race in 2000. Major achievements In addition, she finished in the top ten at the World Cross Country Championships. Personal bests 400 m 54.07 (1997) 800 m 1:58.94 (1997) 1500 m 3:57.71 (1998) 3000 m 8:30.22 (1999) 5000 m 15:52.54 (2000) 10 km 33:46(1997) References External links 1971 births Living people Portuguese female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Portugal Golden Globes (Portugal) winners World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Portuguese people of Cape Verdean descent Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Universiade silver medalists for Portugal World Athletics Championships winners Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games Athletes from Lisbon