Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (September 29, 1927 - January 12, 2001) is a retired Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records, the last being 16,56 metres in 1956. Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... // Milestones Emil Zatopek (TCH) won the 5 000m, the 10 000m and then went on to win a third gold medal in his first marathon, this perform is still unique up to now. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, step and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ...
ADHEMAR FERREIRA DASILVA, the only Brazilian athlete with two Olympic gold medals, was born in the suburbian city of Casa Verde in São Paulo, on September 29 of 1927.
The only child of a railroad worker and a cook, Adhemar was a skinny boy with long and skinny legs, who spent his free time helping his parents do make money which was little, and that kept him away from the streets and its problems.
When Adhemar Ferreira daSilva entered the track to dispute the triple jump at the Helsinque Olympic in Finland in 1952, he was not expecting to break the world record, in which at the time was of 16m., he also did not expect to repeat so four times in the same afternoon.
DaSilva is the only Brazilian to win two Olympic gold medals, taking the first in Helsinki in 1952 and the second four years later in Melbourne.
A diabetic, daSilva was admitted to hospital in Sao Paulo on Monday with pneumonia and was transferred on Friday morning to the intensive care unit where he suffered cardiac arrest.
DaSilva, who smoked a packet of cigarettes per day, had little coaching but revolutionised the triple jump by concentrating his effort on the second jump rather than the third.
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