Adhemar da Silva
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| Full name | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 29, 1927[2] São Paulo, Brazil[2] |
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| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[2] São Paulo, Brazil[2] |
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| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 152 lb (69 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (September 29, 1927 – January 12, 2001) was a Brazilian track and field athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records in athletics, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games.
Biography
Da Silva was born in São Paulo, in a poor family, and began competing in the triple jump in 1947. Under the coaching of German Dietrich Gerner, he soon showed his talent, breaking the national record and qualifying for the Brazilian team to 1948 Olympics, where he placed only 8th. However, at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he became a two-time Olympic champion and world record holder and the only Brazilian athlete to have won gold in two consecutive Olympics until the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London. There, the Brazilian women's volleyball squad defended their title, obtained four years earlier in Beijing, making six of their members consecutive Olympic champions (Jaqueline Carvalho, Sheilla Castro, Fabiana Claudino, Thaísa Menezes, Fabiana Oliveira and Paula Pequeno).
He was a member of the São Paulo Futebol Clube, and because of him, the team coat has two gold stars above the emblem. He also competed for Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama from 1955 to 1959.
In 1959, da Silva acted in the film Orfeu Negro, portraying Death.[3] It won the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
de Silva made his final Olympic appearance in Rome in 1960, finishing 14th.[2]
IN 2012 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame.[4]
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| Preceded by | Men's triple jump world record holder 1950-12-03 – 1953-07-19 1955-03-26 – 1958-07-19 |
Succeeded by Leonid Shcherbakov Oleg Rjahovsky |
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- 1927 births
- 2001 deaths
- Sportspeople from São Paulo (city)
- Brazilian triple jumpers
- Male triple jumpers
- Brazilian male athletes
- Olympic athletes of Brazil
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games athletes of Brazil
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame inductees
- São Paulo FC
- Brazilian people of African descent
