Arnoldo Devonish

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Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Bronze 1952 Helsinki Triple jump

Arnoldo Devonish (June 15, 1932January 1, 1997) is a retired athlete from Venezuela, who won the first Olympic medal for his native country from South America. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he finished third in the Men's Triple Jump Final, with a distance of 15 metres and 52 centimetres, behind Adhemar da Silva (Brazil) and Leonid Shcherbakov (Soviet Union).