Augusto Dutra de Oliveira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian pole vaulter
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Place of Birth: Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
About Augusto Dutra de Oliveira
- Augusto Dutra da Silva de Oliveira (born 16 July 1990) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault.
- He has personal bests of 5.82 metres (outdoor) and 5.71 m (indoors) are the South American records for the event.Born in Marília in Brazil's São Paulo state, de Oliveira first competed internationally in 2009: he won the South American Junior title with a vault of 4.90 metres and placed fourth at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.
- His personal best that year was 5.00 m.
- He began training under Elson Miranda, a former pole vaulter, with the Clube Atletismo BM&F Bovespa.The following year he took the title at the 2010 South American Games (which doubled as the South American Under-23 Championships).
- He improved his best to 5.40 metres in May and went on to place second nationally at the Brazilian Athletics Championships.
- He was fourth at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics.
- His 2012 was highlighted by a new personal best of 5.45 m and a silver medal at the 2012 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics.At the beginning of 2013 he rapidly ascended to the top of the regional rankings.
- He cleared a South American indoor record of 5.66 m then another of 5.71 m in March.
- He won at the Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo with an outdoor best of 5.70 m, beating reigning South American champion Fabio Gomes da Silva.
- Later that week in Uberlândia he broke da Silva's outdoor continental mark with a vault of 5.81 m.On June 22, 2013 he broke again the South American record with a 5.82 mark.
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