Nelson Évora

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Medal record
Évora after the men's triple jump medal ceremony at the 2007 World Championships.
Competitor for Portugal
Men's athletics
World Championships
Gold	2007 Osaka	Triple jump
World Indoor Championships
Bronze	2008 Valencia	Triple jump
European Junior Championships
Gold	2003 Tampere	Triple Jump
Gold	2003 Tampere	Long Jump

Nelson Évora (born April 20, 1984) is a Portuguese athlete who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica.

He represented Cape Verde until 2002, when he got Portuguese citizenship. Born in Cote D'Ivoire, where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson relocated to Portugal when he was five years old.^[1] He still holds the Cape Verdean records in both the long jump (7.57 metres) and the triple jump (16.15 metres).^[2]

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.

Évora is a member of the Bahá'í Faith.^[1]

On August 27, 2007, he became the triple jump World champion at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, estabilishing his personal best, portuguese national record and second best world mark of the year at 17.74 metres.^[3]

On March 9, 2008, he placed third in the triple jump competition at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, in Valencia, by jumping 17.27 metres.