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BEST MALE NELSON EVORA (POR) – Athletics,

Nelson Évora (born 20 April 1984) is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and . He is a former triple jump Olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese club Benfica. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship, in June that year.

Main Honors Gold Triple Jump – 2008 (CHN) World Championships Gold Triple Jump - 2007 (JPN) Silver Triple Jump – 2009 (GER) World Indoor Championships Bronze Triple Jump – 2008 Valencia (ESP) Gold Triple Jump - 2009 (SRB) Gold Triple Jump - 2011 Shenzhen (CHN)

Athlete’s Bio Born in Côte d'Ivoire, where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson and his family moved to when he was five years old. He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 m) and the triple jump (16.15 m). Évora's family settled in Odivelas, on the floor above João Ganço's, a former Portugal record-holder and first man in Portugal to pass over 2m in the high jump. David Ganço, one of João Ganço's three sons, one year older than Nelson, became Évora's best friend. One day, João Ganço, seeing them playing in the street, suggested that Nelson start practicing athletics, following David's example, and, just like that, Nelson sportive career started. João Ganço then became Évora's coach.

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University INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LISBOA – ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL (Polytechnic Institute of – Higher School of Social Communication) 1st Degree in Publicity and Marketing

Sports Career He competed in the triple jump in the 2004 Olympics, without progressing from his pool, and finished sixth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He finished fourth in the triple jump final and sixth in the long jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Göteborg, having set a Portuguese triple jump record of 17.23m during the qualification. At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships he came in fifth place. On August 27 th , 2007, he became the triple jump World champion at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, , establishing his personal best, Portuguese national record and second best world mark of the year at 17.74m. On March 9th , 2008, he placed third in the triple jump competition at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, in Valencia, by jumping 17.27m. On August 21 st , 2008, he edged out Phillips Idowu of Great Britain and Leevan Sands of to take an Olympic gold medal with a 17.67m jump. Évora set the world leading mark at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa in May 2009, winning with 17.66m. He was pleased with the jump (his third best performance ever) and stated his intention to surpass the 18m mark at the forthcoming 2009 World Championships in Athletics. In mid-2009, he won the triple jump gold at the Universiade and another at the 2009 Lusophony Games. However he was unable to replicate his winning form at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, being relegated to 2nd place. After leading with a first round jump of 17.55m, the man he beat in the Olympics, Phillips Idowu was able to take the gold with a third round jump of 17.73m, the longest in world for that year. He prolonged his Universiade champion title in 2011 in Shenzhen and ended 5 th at the IAAF in . An injury kept him from defending his Olympic title in 2012.

Personal Bests Évora en-route to his 2009 World Championships silver medal High Jump - 2.07 m (2005) Long jump - 8.10 m (2007) FACT SHEET

Triple jump - 17.74 m (2007)

Achievements 2011 2011 Summer Universiade (Shenzhen) 1st place (Triple Jump - 17.31) 2009 2009 World Championships in Athletics (Berlin) 2nd place (Triple Jump - 17.55) 2009 Summer Universiade (Belgrade) 1st place (Triple Jump - 17.22) 2008 2008 Olympic Games (Beijing) Gold Medal (Triple Jump - 17.67 - Best world mark of the year) 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships (Valencia) Bronze medal (Triple Jump - 17.27) 2007 2007 IAAF World Championships (Osaka) Gold medal (Triple Jump - 17.74 - Personal best - Second best world mark of the year) 2007 in Athletics () 1st place (Triple Jump - 17.35) 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships () 5th place (Triple Jump - 16.97) 2006 2006 European Championships in Athletics (Göteborg) 4th place (Triple Jump - 17.07) 6th place (Long Jump - 7.91) 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships () 6th place (Triple Jump - 17.14) 2006 European Cup in Athletics () 2nd place (Triple Jump - 17.03) 1st place (Long Jump - 8.05) 2005 2005 U-23 European Championship Bronze medal (Triple Jump - 16.89) 2004 2004 Olympic Games () 40th place (Triple Jump - 15.72) 2003 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships () Gold medal (Triple Jump - 16.43) Gold medal (Long Jump - 7.83)

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