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Nelson Évora

Évora after the men's triple jump medal ceremony at the 2007 World Championships.
Medal record
Representing  Portugal
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Triple jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Osaka Triple jump
Silver medal – second place 2009 Berlin Triple jump
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Valencia Triple jump
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2009 Belgrade Triple jump

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European U23 Championships

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Bronze medal – third place 2005 Erfurt Triple Jump

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European Junior Championships

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Gold medal – first place 2003 Tampere Triple Jump

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Gold medal – first place 2003 Tampere Long Jump


Nelson Évora (born April 20, 1984) is a Portuguese athlete who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship, in June that year.

Biography

Born in Côte d'Ivoire, where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson relocated to Portugal when he was five years old.[1] He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 m) and the triple jump (16.15 m).[2]

Évora's family fixed in Odivelas, on the floor upon João Ganço, former Portugal record-holder and first man in Portugal to pass over 2m in the high jump. David Ganço, one of three sons of João Ganço, one year older than Nelson, became Évora's best friend. One day, João Ganço, seeing them playing in the street, suggested Nelson to start practicing athletics, following David's example, and, just like that, Nelson sportive career was started. João Ganço, then became Évora's coach.

Évora is a member of the Bahá'í Faith.[1]

Sports career

He competed in the triple jump in the 2004 Olympics, without progressing from his pool, and finished sixth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He finished fourth in the triple jump final and sixth in the long jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, having set a Portuguese triple jump record of 17.23 metres during the qualification. At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships he came in fifth place.

On August 27, 2007, he became the triple jump World champion at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, establishing his personal best, Portuguese national record and second best world mark of the year at 17.74 metres.[3]

On March 9, 2008, he placed third in the triple jump competition at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, in Valencia, by jumping 17.27 metres.

On August 21, 2008, he edged out Phillips Idowu of Great Britain and Leevan Sands of the Bahamas to take an Olympic gold medal with a 17.67 metres jump.

Évora set the world leading mark at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa in May 2009, winning with 17.66 m. He was pleased with the jump (his third best performance ever) and stated his intention to surpass the 18 metre mark at the forthcoming 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[4] In mid-2009, he won the triple jump gold at the Universiade and another at the 2009 Lusophony Games.[5]

Personal bests

Achievements

References

  1. ^ a b Baha'i World News Service - Top sportsmen find support in faith
  2. ^ Cape Verdean athletics record[dead link]
  3. ^ Nélson Évora campeão do mundo do triplo salto Template:Pt icon
  4. ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-05-25). Belém spectacular produces five world season leads – IAAF World Athletics Tour. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-05-30.
  5. ^ Fernandes, António Manuel (2009-07-14). Évora, another title in Lisbon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
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