Asnoldo Vicente Devonish Romero[1] (June 15, 1932 – January 1, 1997) was a Venezuelan track and field athlete who won the first Olympic medal for his native country.
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Full name | Asnoldo Vicente Devonish Romero | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1932-06-15)June 15, 1932 Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | January 1, 1997(1997-01-01) (aged 64) Caracas, Venezuela | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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).[2]
In 1990, he was awarded the Olympic Order.[3]
Asnoldo Vicente DEVONISH ROMERO (VEN), is the only Venezuelan to have won an Olympic medal in track and field.
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