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Laila Ferrer e Silva

Olympic javelin thrower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6473855 ↗
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Laila Ferrer e Silva Domingos (born 30 July 1982 in Pacatuba, Ceará) is a Brazilian javelin thrower. She competed in the javelin throw event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In December 2012, she married hammer thrower Wagner Domingos.

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The public source identifies “Laila Ferrer e Silva” as olympic javelin thrower. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Laila, Ferrer and Silva.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2012, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-07-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Laila, Ferrer and Silva providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Laila Ferrer e Silva” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.