Career
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. 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).