Adhemar da Silva

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Adhemar da Silva 1956
Memorial to Adhemar da Silva in the Estádio do Morumbi

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (born September 29, 1927 in São Paulo ; † January 12, 2001 there ) was a Brazilian triple jumper and Olympic champion . From 1947 to 1955 he was organized at São Paulo FC , then he joined the CR Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro where he ended his sports career in 1960.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 and at the 1956 in Melbourne , he won gold.

Da Silva was the dominant jumper of the 1950s. He improved the world record three times:

  • 1950, December 3 in São Paulo: 16.00 meters (setting of the width with which the Japanese Tajima Naoto became Olympic champion in 1936).
  • 1951, September 30th in Rio de Janeiro: 16.01 meters
  • 1952, July 23 in Helsinki: 16.12 meters and 16.22 meters
  • 1955, March 16 in Mexico City: 16.56 meters

The last world record meant his victory at the Pan American Games. He won this title in Buenos Aires in 1951 , in Mexico City in 1955 and in Chicago in 1959 .

He is the only Brazilian athlete to date to have won two gold medals at the Olympic Games. With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was 69 kg.

As an actor, Da Silva worked in Marcel Camus ' award-winning feature film Orfeu Negro (1959). In 1971 he was seen again as Big John in Hall Bartlett's crime film The Challenger .

Adhemar was a heavy smoker from the age of 16 to 71 and died of the side effects at the age of 73. He was posthumously inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.

Adhemar to member of São Paulo FC . He honored the player by adding the two gold medals from the Olympic Games as gold stars to his logo.

São Paulo FC logo

literature

  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. Triple jump / pole vault. Grevenbroich 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. São Paulo honor , report on memoriasdoesporte.com.br from August 26, 2018, page in portug., Accessed on August 30, 2018