Gerson Baldé (born 28 January 2000) is a Portuguese

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 ...

er and

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 ...

er. He is a multiple-time national champion in both disciplines. He competed in the long jump at the

2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 21 to 23 March 2025 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China, at the newly built Nanjing's Cube gymnasium in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park. Nanjing was originally due to host the ...

Career

From

Albufeira Albufeira (, ), officially the City of Albufeira (), is a List of cities in Portugal, city and Concelho, municipality of Faro District in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2021 was 44,158, in an area of . The city proper ...

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, he is a member of

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athletics club, in

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. He finished 19th in the

at the

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. He jumped 8.14 metres to narrowly miss the high jump final at the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena, Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF Worl ...

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. He set a

personal best of 8.14 metres in 2024, and went on to compete at the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It was the third time Italy staged this sporting event after the inaugural 1934 European Athletics Championships, 1934 edition in T ...

in Rome. He qualified with the fifth furthest distance in Rome, recording 8.10 metres, however in the final he did not make a clean jump and therefore did not register a distance. In January 2025, he won the long jump with 8.11 metres at the Mário Moniz Pereira Meeting, allowing him to automatically qualify for the upcoming European Indoors. He qualified for the final of the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with an opening jump in qualifying of 8.11 metres, which was also the longest jump in qualification. In the final he recorded a jump of 8.07 metres with his second effort, which was enough to secure him fourth place overall. Subsequently, he was selected to compete at the

that same month in

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, China. He placed eighth overall in Nanjing, with a best mark of 8.03 metres.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldé, Gerson 2000 births Living people People from Albufeira Portuguese male high jumpers Portuguese male long jumpers