Almir dos Santos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Almir dos Santos

Brazilian track and field athlete

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1993

Place of Birth: Matupá, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Profession: athletics competitor, long jumper, high jumper, triple jumper

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Almir dos Santos

  • Almir Cunha dos Santos (born 4 September 1993) is a Brazilian male track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and long jump.
  • He was a silver medallist in the triple jump at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2018. Born in Matupá, in the central state of Mato Grosso, he took up athletics at a young age, initially focusing on the high jump.
  • He moved to Porto Alegre and had his first success at the 2010 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, where he took the gold medal.
  • He tried out the long jump, clearing 7.26 m (23 ft 9 3/4 in) in 2011 and competing in qualifying at the 2012 World Junior Championships, but remained focused on the high jump until 2014 – a season in which he set a personal best of 2.18 m (7 ft 1 3/4 in).After little progress in the high jump in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, he returned to the long jump in 2017 and came away with an improved best of 7.96 m (26 ft 1 1/4 in) and a fifth-place finish at the South American Championships.
  • However, it was the triple jump in which he showed most promise that year, setting a best of 16.86 m (55 ft 3 3/4 in) in his hometown of Porto Alegre.He indicated himself as an elite jumper in the 2018 season, starting with a jump of 17.06 m (55 ft 11 1/2 in) at an American meeting in Kent, Ohio.
  • He backed this up with a performance at the top level Madrid Indoor Meeting in February, winning with a world-leading mark of 17.35 m (56 ft 11 in) ahead of former world and Olympic champion Nelson Évora.
  • These performances qualified him for the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships and in the final he took the lead in round two with a clearance of 17.22 m (56 ft 5 3/4 in).
  • He improved further to 17.41 m (57 ft 1 1/4 in), two centimetres short of the new leader Will Claye, and left with a silver medal from his senior global debut.

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