Key facts
- Nationality
- Portuguese
- Born
- ( 1984-04-20 ) 20 April 1984 (age 42) , Ouragahio , Ivory Coast
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Weight
- 76 kg (168 lb)
- Country
- Portugal
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Triple jump
- Club
- FC Barcelona
- Coached by
- Iván Pedroso
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nelson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Abidjan
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Religion
- Baháʼí Faith
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- S.L. Benfica
- Country for sport
- Portugal
- Mass
- 62
- Official website
- www.nelson-evora.com
- Image
- PortraitNelsonÉvoraOGRio2016.jpg
- Height
- 181
- Residence
- Lisbon
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- name in native language
- Nelson Évora
- Commons category
- Nélson Évora
- date of birth
- 1984-04-20
- sports discipline competed in
- long jump
- social media followers
- 10901
- unmarried partner
- Ana Peleteiro
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Nelson Évora GCIH (born 20 April 1984) is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete of Cape Verdean descent who specializes in the triple jump.
Évora is a former outdoor Olympic, World, and European triple jump champion. He has also won a European indoor title and the World indoor tour in triple jump. Évora competes at national level for Portugal and at club level for FC Barcelona. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship in June of that year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nelson Évora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.