Joaquim Cruz
Joaquim Cruz ( Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, born March 12, 1963 in Taguatinga, Distrito Federal ) is a former Brazilian middle-distance runner
Cruz was one of the world's best 800 -meter runners in the 1980s and won at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles against its major rivals Sebastian Coe, the gold medal. He is so in addition to the triple jumper Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, who won gold in 1952 and 1956, the first and only Brazilian Olympic champion in athletics.
At the World Athletics Championships in 1983 Joaquim Cruz won bronze behind the German Willi Wülbeck and Rob Druppers from the Netherlands.
At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Cruz won behind Paul Ereng silver medal in the 800 m, but had to interrupt his career for several years a little later due to Achilles tendon complaints.
At the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995, he started in the 1500 -meter run, but difference in the flow of.
Cruz is 1,88 m tall and weighed about 77 kg competition times.