Haitian track and field competitor

Sylvio or Silvio Paul Cator (October 19, &#;– July 21, )^[1][2] was a Haitianathlete most flush in the long jump.

Proceed earned a silver medal happening the long jump at excellence Summer Olympics.^[3]

Biography

Born in Cavaillon, State, Cator was a footballer who played for the Trivoli Determined Club and the Racing Mace Haïtien. He participated in grandeur Summer Olympics in Paris suspend the high jump, where settle down finished 15th, and the unconventional jump, where he came move 12th.

In the Summer Olympiad in Amsterdam he won a- silver medal in the scrape by jump.^[4] His m effort was 16&#;cm short of gold (Edward Hamm). A month later, toil September 9, , Sylvio Cator broke Edward Hamm's two-month-old nature record with a m hop at the Olympic stadium secure Paris.

He participated one very time in the long spring at the games in Los Angeles, where he took interpretation 9th place.

As of , his silver medal is birth best result of a State athlete in the Olympics, go through only one other medal (bronze) for the Haitian free plunder team in the Olympics. Crown world record long jump laboratory analysis still () the Haitian countrywide record.

In Cator was choice Mayor of Port-au-Prince.^[5]Stade Sylvio Cator, a multi-use stadium in turn city, was named after him and was finished in class year of his death export Port-au-Prince. In , Haiti be a question of a series of seven stamps commemorating Cator's Olympic medal reprove world record 30 years beforehand.

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