Silvio Cator

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Silvio Cator

Silvio Cator (born October 9, 1900 in Cavaillon , † July 22, 1952 in Port-au-Prince ) was a Haitian athlete who was particularly successful in the long jump .

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, he took 15th place in the high jump with 1.75 m and was twelfth in the long jump with 6.81 m.

Four years later he won the long jump at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam with 7.58 m, the silver medal behind world record holder Ed Hamm (USA). In 1932 he was in the same discipline at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles ninth with 5.93 m.

In addition to a rifle shooting team that won an Olympic bronze medal in 1924, Cator is Haiti's only Olympic medalist to date. In track and field, he was the only medalist at world championships until hurdler Dudley Dorival won bronze at the 2001 World Track and Field Championships.

A few weeks after the 1928 Games on September 9, 1928, Cator set a world record with 7.93 m in the Colombes stadium near Paris, replacing Hamm as the world record holder. The 7.93 m is still today, after 84 years, the national record in Haiti, and thus - 60 years after his death - he is the holder of the oldest existing national record in athletics worldwide.

Silvio Cator was 1.78 m tall and weighed 75 kg during his active time.

Regarding the spelling of his first name: In almost all statistics you can find the spelling Silvio. On the side with the national records of Haiti is Sylvio.

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