Nelson Prudêncio
Nelson Prudêncio (born April 4, 1944 in Lins , São Paulo , † November 23, 2012 in São Carlos ) was a Brazilian triple jumper .
Life
In 1965 he was Brazilian champion for the first time with 14.52 meters. Back then, these championships were only held every two years, and Prudêncio remained unbeaten until 1971, and in 1967 he also won the long jump with 6.82 meters .
In 1967 he won the Pan American Games in Winnipeg with 16.45 meters silver behind the American Charles Craig .
By the beginning of the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 , Prudêncio had a personal best of 16.30 meters. The world record of Poland's Józef Szmidt (17.03 meters) was already exceeded in the qualification when the Italian Giuseppe Gentile jumped 17.10 meters. Prudêncio jumped 16.46 meters and finished fourth in the qualification.
On October 17, 1968, a final followed that went down in track and field history. In the first attempt, Gentile increased his qualifying world record to 17.22 meters. In the second attempt, Prudêncio increased to 17.05 meters. In the third attempt, Viktor Sanejew (Soviet Union) jumped 17 meters for the first time in his life and immediately improved the world record to 17.23 meters. In the fifth attempt, Prudêncio set another world record with 17.27 meters. In the sixth and last attempt, Sanejew jumped 17.39 meters and won gold from Prudêncio and Gentile.
Within an hour, the world record was broken four times by three different jumpers. A total of six jumpers jumped over 17 meters. The defending champion Szmidt was only seventh. This performance explosion was favored on the one hand by the altitude in Mexico City, on the other hand by a very friendly wind, because the anemometer showed the maximum permissible value of 2 m / s for all four world records.
In 1971 Prudêncio was 16.82 meters behind the Cuban Pedro Pérez , who jumped the world record with 17.40 meters, second at the Pan American Games in Cali . At the 1972 Olympic Games , Prudêncio jumped 17.05 meters for the only time except in 1968 in Mexico City, the 17-meter mark. He was third behind Sanejew and Jörg Drehmel from the GDR.
At the Pan American Games in Mexico City in 1975 , Nelson Prudêncio was fourth with 16.85 meters. In this competition, his compatriot João Carlos de Oliveira set a world record with 17.89 meters. At the Olympic Games in 1976 Prudêncio failed with 16.22 meters in qualification.
Nelson Prudêncio was 1.82 m tall and weighed 71 kg during his playing days.
Top performances
- Long jump: 7.36 meters
- Triple jump: 17.27 meters
literature
- Manfred Holzhausen: world records and welding record holder. Triple jump / pole vault. Grevenbroich 2002
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation e.V. )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brazilian Olympic medalist Nelson Prudencio dies ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Morre o medalhista olímpico Nelson Prudêncio
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prudêncio, Nelson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian triple jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lins (São Paulo) , São Paulo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 2012 |
| Place of death | Sao Carlos |