Almir Cunha dos Santos (born 4 September 1993) is a Brazilian male

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athlete who competes in the

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and

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. He was a silver medallist in the triple jump at the

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in 2018.

Athletic career

Born in

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, in the central state of

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, he took up

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at a young age, initially focusing on the

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. He moved to

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and had his first success at the 2010 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, where he took the gold medal. He tried out the long jump, clearing in 2011 and competing in qualifying at the 2012 World Junior Championships, but remained focused on the high jump until 2014 – a season in which he set a personal best of .Almir Dos Santos
IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-04. After little progress in the high jump in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, he returned to the long jump in 2017. He came away with an improved best of and a fifth-place finish at the

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. However, it was the triple jump in which he showed the most promise that year, setting a best of in his hometown of Porto Alegre. He indicated himself as an elite jumper in the 2018 season, starting with a jump of at an American meeting in

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. He backed this up with a performance at the top level

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in February, winning with a world-leading mark of ahead of former world and Olympic champion

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. These performances qualified him for the

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, and in the final, he took the lead in round two with a clearance of . He improved further to , two centimetres short of the new leader

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, and left with a silver medal from his senior global debut. After 2018, Almir dos Santos had a series of injuries, and only in 2022 he returned to compete at a high level, reaching the final of the triple jump at the

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, finishing in 7th place.Almir avança no salto triplo e é 3º brasileiro a fazer final no Mundial
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International competitions

Personal bests

High jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

– (2014) *

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

– (2017) *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

– (2018) *Triple jump indoor – (2019)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Santos, Almir Living people 1993 births Brazilian male triple jumpers Brazilian male long jumpers Brazilian male high jumpers Sportspeople from Mato Grosso Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Brazil