Carlos Calado

Carlos Calado ( Carlos Nuno Tavares Calado ; born October 5, 1975 in Alcanena ) is a former Portuguese athlete who won a world championship bronze medal in the long jump in 2001, but also excelled in other disciplines.

In 1996 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta Calado entered both the triple jump (19th place) and the long jump (24th place), but was eliminated in each qualification. At the first U23 European Championships, which took place in Turku in 1997 , he won the long jump with a wind-assisted 8.32 m and two centimeter lead over the Russian Kirill Sossunow , the Ukrainian Oleksij Lukashevytsch came third . In the wind-assisted final of the 100-meter run , the Greek Angelos Pavlakakis won ahead of Calado and Marlon Devonish . At the European Indoor Championships in Valencia in 1998 Lukashevytsch won the long jump with 8.06 m in front of Calado in second place and the French Emmanuel Bangué in third, both of whom had jumped 8.05 m.

In 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney Calado took tenth place in the long jump at 7.94 m. At the World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon Calado won bronze with 8.16 m, only Iván Pedroso jumped further, Kareem Streete-Thompson received silver with the same distance because of the better second attempt.

At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , Calado won the bronze medal with 8.21 m behind Iván Pedroso and Savanté Stringfellow (USA).

This was the last great success of Calado, who competed in major championships for a few years, but did not survive qualification. Calado set a total of eleven national records. His national record in the 100-meter run was improved by Francis Obikwelu , his triple jump record by Nelson Évora .

Carlos Calado is 1.86 m tall, weighed 80 kg at competition times and started for Sporting Lisbon .

Personal best

• 60 m : 6.60 s, February 20, 1999, Espinho
• 100 meters: 10.11 s, June 6, 1999, Vila Real de Santo António
• 200 meters : 20.90 s, July 20, 1997, Coimbra
  • Hall: 21.74 s, February 2, 2003, Espinho
• Long jump: 8.36 m, June 20, 1997, Lisbon (Portuguese record; as of early 2008)
  • Hall: 8.22 m, January 26, 2002, Espinho
• Triple jump: 17.08 m, June 21, 1996, Lisbon
  • Hall: 17.09 m, February 20, 1999, Espinho

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2002. Worcester 2002, ISBN 1-899807-13-6

Web links

• Carlos Calado in the database of World Athletics (English)