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Nelson Évora

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Nelson Évora
Nélson Évora in 2015
Personal information
NationalityPortuguese
Born (1984-04-20) 20 April 1984 (age 40)[1]
Ouragahio, Ivory Coast
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight76 kg (168 lb)[1]
Sport
Country Portugal
SportTrack and field
EventTriple jump
ClubFC Barcelona[1]
Coached byIván Pedroso[2]
Medal record
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
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Beijing Triple jump
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London Triple jump
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Valencia Triple jump
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Birmingham Triple jump
World Indoor Tour
Winner 2018 Triple jump
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Berlin Triple jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Prague Triple jump
Gold medal – first place 2017 Belgrade Triple jump
Silver medal – second place 2019 Glasgow Triple jump
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2009 Belgrade Triple jump
Gold medal – first place 2011 Shenzhen Triple jump
Lusophony Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Lusophony Games 16.30 m
Gold medal – first place 2009 Lusophony Games 17.15 m

Nelson Évora GCIH[3] (born 20 April 1984) is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete of Cape Verdean descent who specializes in the triple jump.

Évora is a former outdoor Olympic, World, and European triple jump champion. He has also won a European indoor title and the World indoor tour in triple jump. Évora competes at national level for Portugal and at club level for FC Barcelona. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship in June of that year.

Biography

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Born in Ouragahio, Ivory Coast, where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Évora and his family moved to Portugal when he was five years old.[4] He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 m) and the triple jump (16.15 m).[5]

Évora's family settled in Odivelas, on the floor above João Ganço's—a former Portugal record-holder and the first Portuguese to pass over 2 meters in the high jump. Davide Ganço, one of João Ganço's three sons and one year older than Évora, became his best friend. One day, João Ganço, seeing them playing in the street, suggested that Évora started practising athletics, following Davide's example, and, just like that, Évora's athletic career started. João then became his coach.

Évora is a member of the Baháʼí Faith.[4][non-primary source needed]

Sports career

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He competed in the triple jump in the 2004 Olympics, without progressing from his pool,[1] 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 27 August 2007, Évora became the triple jump world champion at the 2007 World Championships, in Osaka, Japan, establishing his personal best (Portuguese national record until May 2018)[6] and second best world mark of the year at 17.74 metres.[7]

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

On 21 August 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.[1]

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.[8] In mid-2009, he won the triple jump gold at the Universiade and another at the 2009 Lusophony Games.[9]

However he was unable to replicate his winning form at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, being relegated to second place. After leading with a first round jump of 17.55 m, the man he beat in the Olympics, Phillips Idowu, was able to take the gold with a third round jump of 17.73 m, the longest in the world for that year.

Évora represented F. C. Porto from 2002 to 2004, S.L. Benfica from 2004 to 2016 and Sporting Clube de Portugal from 2016 to 2020. Since 2020 he is an athlete of FC Barcelona.[10]

Personal bests

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Évora en route to his 2009 World Championships silver medal

International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Portugal
2001 European Youth Olympic Festival Murcia, Spain 1st Long jump 7.49 m
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 18th (q) Long jump 7.28 m (+0.7 m/s)
6th Triple jump 15.87 m (-0.2 m/s)
2003 European Junior Championships Tampere, Finland 1st Long jump 7.83 m
6th Triple jump 16.43 m
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 10th (q) Triple jump 16.30 m
Ibero-American Championships Huelva, Spain 7th Triple jump 15.56 m
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 23rd (q) Triple jump 15.72 m
2005 European U23 Championships Erfurt, Germany 3rd Triple jump 16.89 m (+1.9 m/s)
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 14th (q) Triple jump 16.60 m
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia 6th Triple jump 17.14 m
European Cup First League Thessaloniki, Greece 1st Long jump 8.05 m (0.0 m/s)
2nd Triple jump 17.03 m w (+2.5 m/s)
European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 6th Long jump 7.91 m
4th Triple jump 17.07 m
Lusophony Games Macau, China 1st Triple jump 16.30 m
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 5th Triple jump 16.97 m
European Cup First League Milan, Italy 1st Long jump 8.10 m (-0.9 m/s)
1st Triple jump 17.35 m w (+2.4 m/s)
World Championships Osaka, Japan 1st Triple jump 17.74 m NR
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 3rd Triple jump 17.30 m
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 3rd Triple jump 17.27 m
European Cup First League Leiria, Portugal 1st Long jump 7.88 m (0.0 m/s)
1st Triple jump 16.91 m (+0.8 m/s)
Olympic Games Beijing, China 1st Triple jump 17.67 m
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 1st Triple jump 17.24 m
2009 European Team Championships Leiria, Portugal 2nd Long jump 7.94 m
1st Triple jump 17.59 m
Universiade Belgrade, Serbia 1st Triple jump 17.22 m
Lusophony Games Lisbon, Portugal 1st Triple jump 17.15 m
World Championships Berlin, Germany 2nd Triple jump 17.55 m
2011 European Team Championships Stockholm, Sweden 6th Triple jump 16.33 m
Universiade Shenzhen, China 1st Triple jump 17.31 m
World Championships Daegu, Korea 5th Triple jump 17.35 m
2014 European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 6th Triple jump 16.78 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 1st Triple jump 17.21 m
World Championships Beijing, China 3rd Triple jump 17.52 m
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 4th Triple jump 16.89 m
European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 17th (q) Triple jump 16.27 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6th Triple jump 17.03 m SB
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 1st Triple jump 17.20 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 3rd Triple jump 17.19 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 3rd Triple jump 17.40 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany 1st Triple jump 17.10 m
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 2nd Triple jump 17.11 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 15th (q) Triple jump 16.80 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 27th (q) Triple jump 15.39 m

Orders

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nelson Évora". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Atletismo: Nélson Évora treinado por Ivan Pedroso".
  3. ^ "Página não encontrada".
  4. ^ a b Top sportsmen find support in faith. Baha'i World News Service. 11 August 2004
  5. ^ Cape Verdean athletics record. athlerecords.net
  6. ^ Pires, Bruno; Frias, Rui (4 May 2018). "Pichardo estabelece novo recorde nacional do triplo salto" [Pichardo establishes new triple jump national record]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  7. ^ Nélson Évora campeão do mundo do triplo salto. ultimahora.publico.clix.pt. 27 August 2007 (Portuguese)
  8. ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (25 May 2009). Belém spectacular produces five world season leads – IAAF World Athletics Tour. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-05-30.
  9. ^ Fernandes, António Manuel (14 July 2009). Évora, another title in Lisbon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
  10. ^ Nélson Évora contratado pelo Barcelona, Diário de Notícias (31 December 2020) https://www.dn.pt/desporto/nelson-evora-contratado-pelo-barcelona-13186729.html
  11. ^ "Nelson Évora condecorado por Cavaco Silva" [Nelson Évora decorated by Cavaco Silva] (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  12. ^ a b "ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas". www.ordens.presidencia.pt. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
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Preceded by Portuguese Sportsman of the Year
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Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Portugal
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