Joaquim Cruz

This article is about the Brazilian athlete; on the Portuguese politician of the same name (* 1979) see Joaquim Cruz (politician) .

Joaquim Cruz
Joaquim Cruz (2007)
Full name	Joaquim Carvalho Cruz
nation	Brazil
birthday	March 12, 1963
place of birth	Taguatinga , Federal District ,  Brazil
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 41.77 min
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Los Angeles 1984 800 m silver Seoul 1988 800 m World championships bronze Helsinki 1983 800 m
last change: August 20, 2015

Joaquim Carvalho Cruz (born March 12, 1963 in Taguatinga , Federal District ) is a former Brazilian middle-distance runner . His greatest achievement was winning the 800-meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

Career

Cruz was one of the world's top 800-meter runners in the 1980s . With his victory at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles against his great competitor Sebastian Coe , he is the only Brazilian Olympic champion in athletics to date, alongside the triple jumper Adhemar Ferreira da Silva , who won gold in 1952 and 1956 .

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 Joaquim Cruz won bronze behind the German Willi Wülbeck and Rob Druppers from the Netherlands. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Cruz won the silver medal over 800 meters behind Paul Ereng from Kenya, but had to interrupt his career for several years a little later due to Achilles tendon complaints . At the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg , he started in the 1500 meter run , but was eliminated in the preliminary run.

Joaquim Cruz is 1.88 m tall and weighed 77 kg at competition times. Today he works as a track and field trainer in California ( USA ).

Best times

• 800 m: 1: 41.77 min, August 26, 1984, Cologne
• 1000 m : 2: 14.09 min, August 20, 1984, Nice
• 1500 m : 3: 34.63 min, August 14, 1988, Hengelo
• 1 mile : 3: 53.00 min, May 13, 1984, Westwood

Web links

• Official website of (English / Portuguese)
• Joaquim Cruz in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Joaquim Cruz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Los Angeles 1984, 800 m. youtube.com, accessed December 24, 2017 .