Adhemar Ferreira da Silva biography

 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva biography

 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, (born September 29, 1927, São Paulo, Brazil—died January 12, 2001, São Paulo), Brazilian athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals and 5 world information within the triple bounce. He was the primary Brazilian to carry a world file in any occasion and was among the many best South American athletes in historical past.

Though his velocity and long-jumping capacity weren't extraordinary, Ferreira da Silva grew to become an distinctive triple jumper, particularly famous for his stability. He jumped 13.05 metres (42 toes 9.84 inches) in his first meet, in 1947; three years later, educated by German coach Dietrich Gerner, he soared 16 metres (52 toes 5.91 inches) to tie a 14-year-old world file. In 1951, at a nationwide meet in Rio de Janiero, he broke the file by 0.01 metre (0.4 inch). Ferreira da Silva made his first Olympic Games look in 1948 in London, ending eleventh within the triple bounce. In the finals of the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he set two world information in lower than two hours, profitable the gold medal. His longest bounce measured 16.22 metres (53 toes 2.52 inches).

In 1953 Soviet triple jumper Leonid Sherbakov set a world file that bested Ferreira da Silva’s mark by 0.01 metre. Two years later, in his one hundredth competitors, Ferreira da Silva erased Sherbakov’s file with a 16.56-metre (54 foot 3.96 inch) leap, the longest of his profession. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne he gained his second gold medal for the triple bounce. Ferreira da Silva appeared within the 1959 Brazilian movie Black Orpheus and made his closing Olympic look in Rome in 1960, ending 14th.