Tomás Valdemar Hintnaus

Tomás Valdemar Hintnaus (born 15 February 1958) is a retired Brazilian pole vaulter.

He is a son of Czech immigrants, Lubomir and Marianne, who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1948 after the Communist takeover. They lived in the United States, and as an American citizen he qualified first in the United States Olympic Trials (track and field) but following the 1980 US Olympic boycott Hintnaus became estranged and represented Brazil instead, from 1983.

His personal best was 5.76 metres, achieved in August 1985 in Zürich. This is a former South American record. It was broken by countryfellow Fábio Gomes da Silva in 2007.

Hintnaus is perhaps better known as the first model in the underwear advertising campaign of designer Calvin Klein. The photograph by Bruce Weber of a well-muscled young man in white briefs, leaning against a thickly white-washed chimney on Santorini Island in Greece, became the iconic image of "male as sex object" in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} American Photographer magazine named the photo as one of “10 Pictures That Changed America.”^{[citation needed]}

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing United States
1980	Olympic Boycott Games	Philadelphia, United States	1st	5.50 m
Representing Brazil
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th	5.50 m = AR
	Pan American Games	Caracas, Venezuela	3rd
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	12th

See also

• List of male underwear models

References

• IAAF profile for Tomas Valdemar Hintnaus
• Tom Hintnaus at the Internet Movie Database