a BAHAI gold winner---- Triple Jump World Champion
in Osaka Japan this 27th august 2007
Nelson Évora (born April 20, 1984) is a Portuguese athlete who specializes in the triple jump (current world champion) and long jump.
He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship. Born in Cote D'Ivoire where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson relocated to Portugal when he was five.[1] He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both long jump (7.57 metres) and triple jump (16.15 metres).[2]
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 Gothenburg, having set a Portuguese triple jump record of 17.23 metres during the qualification. At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships he came in fifth place.
Évora is a member of the Bahá'í Faith.[1]
He currently competes for Benfica
On August 27, 2007 he became the Triple Jump World Champion in the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, estabilishing his personal best and portuguese national record at 17.74m.[3]
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