Nelson Prudêncio
Prudêncio Nelson ( born April 4, 1944 in Lins, São Paulo, † November 23, 2012 in São Carlos ) was a Brazilian triple jumper.
Life
In 1965, he was charged with 14.52 meters for the first time Brazilian champion. These Championships were held at that time only every two years, and Prudêncio remained unbeaten until 1971, In 1967 he won with 6.82 meters in the long jump.
In 1967 he won at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg with 16.45 meter silver behind the American Charles Craig.
Until the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City Prudêncio had to have a personal best of 16.30 meters. The world record of Poland Józef Szmidt ( 17.03 meters ) has already been exceeded in qualifying, as the Italian Giuseppe Gentile jumped 17.10 meters. Prudêncio jumped 16.46 meters, which was fourth in qualifying.
On October 17, 1968, followed by a final, which went down in athletics history. In the first experiment Gentile increased his world record of 17.22 meters in the qualification. In the second experiment is Prudêncio increased to 17.05 meters. In the third experiment Viktor Sanejew (Soviet Union) jumped for the first time in his life over 17 meters and improved equal the world record to 17.23 meters. In the fifth experiment Prudêncio presented with 17.27 meters to another world record. In the sixth and last attempt Sanejew then jumped to 17.39 meters, which won gold before Prudêncio and Gentile.
Within an hour of the world record of three different jumpers had been four times improved. Overall jumped six athletes over 17 meters. The defending Szmidt was only seventh. This power explosion was favored both by the high altitude in Mexico City, on the other hand by a very friendly wind, because in all four world records, the anemometer showed the maximum value of 2 m / s.
1971 Prudêncio with 16.82 meters behind the Cuban Pedro Pérez, who jumped 17.40 meters with a world record, second in the Pan American Games in Cali was. At the Olympic Games in 1972 Prudêncio skipped with 17.05 meters except for the only time in 1968 in Mexico City, the 17 -meter mark. He was so third behind Sanejew and Jörg Drehmel from the GDR.
At the Pan American Games in 1975 in Mexico City, Nelson Prudêncio with 16.85 meters in fourth. In this competition presented his compatriot João Carlos de Oliveira with 17.89 meters to set a world record. At the Olympic Games in 1976 Prudêncio failed with 16.22 meters in qualifying.
Nelson Prudêncio was 1.82 m tall and weighed 71 kg in his playing days.
Bests
- Long Jump: 7.36 meters
- Triple Jump: 17,27 meters