| Medal record | ||
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 Adhemar da Silva |
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| Men's Athletics | ||
Competitor for  Brazil |
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1952 Helsinki | Triple jump |
| Gold | 1956 Melbourne | Triple jump |
| Pan American Games | ||
| Gold | 1951 Buenos Aires | Triple jump |
| Gold | 1955 Mexico City | Triple jump |
| Gold | 1959 Chicago | Triple jump |
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (September 29, 1927 – January 12, 2001) is a former Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four athletic world records, the last being 16,56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games.
He 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 14th. 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 is the only Brazilian athlete to have won gold in two consecutive Olympics.
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, by French director Marcel Camus, which won the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
| Records | ||
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Preceded by Naoto
Tajima |
Men's Triple Jump World Record
Holder 1950-12-03 – 1953-07-19 |
Succeeded by Leonid
Shcherbakov |
| Preceded by Leonid
Shcherbakov |
Men's Triple Jump World Record
Holder 1955-03-26 – 1958-07-19 |
Succeeded by Oleg
Rjahovsky |
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