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She finished the race in eleventh place on the second heat of the competition by nearly a second behind Denmark"s Nina Christensen, with a time of 15:57.35.
She finished the race in eleventh place on the second heat of the competition by nearly a second behind Denmark"s Nina Christensen, with a time of 15:57.35.
She is a four-time Olympian, and a multiple-time national record holder for the long-distance running (5000 metres, 10,000 metres, half-marathon, and marathon). She also set a personal best time of 2:28:49, by finishing fourth in the women"s race at the 2003 Berlin Marathon. At the age of twenty-two, Dias made her official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she competed in the first ever women"s 5000 metres.
Dias repeated her same fate in the long-distance running at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, when she placed twelfth this time in the preliminary heats of the women"s 10,000 metres, posting her time at 33:21.69.
Following her poor performance and narrow misses in the long-distance running, Dias began her full transition of becoming a marathon runner. In 2003, she reached her breakthrough season by finishing fourth in the women"s race at the Berlin Marathon, with her best career time of 2:28:49, twenty-one seconds behind Italy"s Ornella Ferrara.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Dias placed sixty-second out of eighty-two qualified runners, including Great Britain"s Paula Radcliffe in the women"s marathon, outside her personal best time of 3:08:11. The following year, she displayed a better performance with a thirty-fifth-place finish in the same event at the IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, posting her time at 2:36:50.
She successfully finished the race in forty-sixth place by less than a second behind Spain"s Yesenia Centeno, with a time of 2:36:25.
Three years later, Dias sought to qualify for her fifth Olympics in London, with a higher chance of competing at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. All information taken from IAAF profile.