| Full Name: | Liliana da Silva Cá |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Barreiro, Portugal |
| Height: | 1.84 m[1] |
| Weight: | 93 kg |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Discus throw |
| Coach: | Herédio Costa |
Liliana da Silva Cá[2] (born 5 November 1986) is a Portuguese athlete specialising in the discus throw. At club level she represents Sporting Lisbon.[3]
Cá won a silver medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games. She had a five-year break in her career between 2013 and 2018 to raise children.[4]
Her personal best in the event is 66.40 metres set in Leiria in 2021,[5] a national record. On 27 February 2021, Liliana threw 65.10 m in a preparation test in Vagos and got the entry standard for the Tokyo Olympic Games. She holds the Portuguese record for the discus throw in front of Teresa Machado (65.40 m) in 1998 and Irina Rodrigues (63.96 m) in 2016.
Born and raised in Portugal, Cá is of Bissau-Guinean descent.[6]
| Representing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | European Youth Olympic Festival | Paris, France | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 47.53 m |
| 2004 | World Junior Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 21st (q) | 45.22 m | |
| 2005 | European Junior Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 49.69 m |
| 2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 7th | 51.43 m | |
| 2010 | Ibero-American Championships | San Fernando, Spain | 8th | 51.91 m | |
| European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 14th (q) | 55.47 m | ||
| 2018 | Mediterranean Games | Tarragona, Spain | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 60.05 m |
| European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 7th | 58.91 m | ||
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 26th (q) | 54.31 m | |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 5th | 63.93 m | |
| 2022 | Mediterranean Games | Oran, Algeria | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 63.62 m |
| World Championships | Eugene, United States | 6th | 63.99 m | ||
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 5th | 63.67 m | ||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 8th | 63.59 m | |
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | 3th | 64.53 m[7] | |
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 14th (q) | 62.43 m | ||