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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 Portuguese club S.L. Benfica. He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship, in June that year. ==Biography== 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.〔(Top sportsmen find support in faith ). Baha'i World News Service. 11 August 2004〕 He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 m) and the triple jump (16.15 m).〔(Cape Verdean athletics record ). athlerecords.net〕 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nelson Évora」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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