Enezenaide "Naide" do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes[a] (born 20 November 1979) is a São Toméan-born Portuguese retired track and field athlete who competed in jumping, throwing, hurdling, and combined events.

She initially competed at international events as a representative of São Tomé and Príncipe before becoming a naturalised citizen of Portugal in 2001, upon which she changed her sport nationality.

Enezenaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes was born on 20 November 1979 in São Tomé and Príncipe, a Portuguese-speaking island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the west coast of Central Africa.

However, about a year later, while living in the parish of Fernão Ferro, across the Tagus Estuary from Lisbon, a physical education teacher convinced Gomes of her talent and encouraged her to resume training.

[3] Gomes regarded Portuguese decathlon record holder Mario Anibal and American Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis as her role models.

[10][11] When she was 17, she joined Sporting CP, drawn by the reputation of the club's training program and Mário Moniz Pereira, who oversaw athletics.

Her first competition was the 1998 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics, held in Lisbon from 17 to 19 July, in which she placed sixth in the high jump event with a distance of 1.75 metres.

[14] She was unable to secure a medal at the subsequent 1999 All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa, finishing fifth in the women's heptathlon event with a score of 4974 points.

[15] However, the next year she continued her international success by winning silver in the women's heptathlon event at the 2000 Ibero-American Championships, with a score of 5463 points.

At the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 14 March, she placed fifth in the women's pentathlon event with 4476 points.

[3] She won the women's pentathlon event held on 5 March with a final score of 4759 points, the lowest ever total for a first-place finish in the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

[3] Following her success at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Gomes was unable to secure a medal at an international event for the remainder of the year.

At the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics, held in Huelva, Spain, from 6 to 8 August, Gomes competed in three events: long jump, shot put, and javelin throw.

[6] She placed first in the women's long jump event, held from 4 to 5 March, with a final distance of 6.60 metres, setting a new record for Portugal.

[28] Shortly after returning home from the event, on 8 March, Gomes was made an Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (OIH) by Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio.

At the World Indoor Championships held in Moscow, Russia, from 11 to 12 March, she finished the women's long jump event with a final distance of 6.73 metres, surpassing her previous record.

[35] At the European Championships held in Gothenburg, Sweden, she finished the women's long jump event with a final distance of 6.84 metres – a new personal best.

[39] She went on to win her second gold at the World Indoor Championships, this time in the women's long jump event with a final distance of 7.00 metres.

[41] She ultimately won gold in that year's IAAF World Athletics Final for women's long jump, held in Stuttgart, Germany, on 13 September.

[42] Gomes' strong performances throughout 2008 led analysts to view her as a favourite to win the women's long jump event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

[47] She continued her success that year with another gold at the 2009 European Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal, again in women's long jump, with a final distance of 6.83 metres.

[48] Gomes then finished fourth in the women's long jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, with a final distance of 6.77 metres.

She won silver a final time in the women's long jump event at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris, France.

[56] Gomes failed to win a medal in her final international competition, the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, held in Daegu, South Korea.

[58] On 26 March 2015, Gomes announced her retirement from competitive athletics at the age of 35, in a special news conference made alongside close friends and her longtime coach Abreu Matos.