Nelson Évora
Nélson Évora in 2015
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| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Born |
26 April 1984 Ivory Coast |
| Residence | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
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| Country |
 Portugal
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| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | Triple jump |
| Club | Sporting CP |
| Coached by | Iván Pedroso |
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Medal record
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Nelson Évora, GCIH (born 20 April 1984) is a Portuguese track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump and long jump.
Évora is the current triple jump European indoor champion, and a former triple jump Olympic and world champion. Évora competes for Portugal and Sporting CP. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship, in June that year.
Born in Ivory Coast, where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Évora and his family moved to Portugal when he was five years old. He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 m) and the triple jump (16.15 m).
Évora's family settled in Odivelas, on the floor above João Ganço's—a former Portugal record-holder and the first Portuguese to pass over 2 meters in the high jump. David Ganço, one of João Ganço's three sons and one year older than Évora, became his best friend. One day, João Ganço, seeing them playing in the street, suggested that Évora started practising athletics, following David's example, and, just like that, Évora's sportive career started. João then became his coach.
Évora is a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
He competed in the triple jump in the 2004 Olympics, without progressing from his pool, and finished sixth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He finished fourth in the triple jump final and sixth in the long jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, having set a Portuguese triple jump record of 17.23 metres during the qualification. At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships he came in fifth place.
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