Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz da Silva will be among the key attractions in his event at both the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe and Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, organisers of the two IAAF World Indoor Tour meetings have announced. On 3 February in Karlsruhe, the opening competition of the six-meeting…
Thiago Braz da Silva, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the pole vault, has reportedly withdrawn from the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London and ended his season due to “due to poor form, a calf injury, and back pain,” according to Brazilian media. The Brazilian’s world-qualifying mark of 5.86m, set indoors in January, was ranked sixth globally…
RABAT: Jamaica’s sprint queen Elaine Thompson tuned up for next month’s world championships in style at the Rabat Diamond League meet on Sunday (Jul 16), but Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz endured a torrid time. The Brazilian stole the show in Rio last year but failed in all three…
Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Thiago Braz da Silva chatted with Digital Journal about his 23rd birthday and plans for 2017. When asked to reflect on the past year, Braz da Silva said, “One of the things that made me very emotional is the ‘flash’ I had after I passed…
Rio de Janeiro : Brazil’s Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz da Silva has received a one kilogram gold bar from his former club as a reward for his triumph at the just concluded Rio Games here. The 22-year-old won Brazil’s first ever Olympic pole vault gold medal beating France’s…
IT TOOK ten days, but Brazil’s second gold medal of the Olympics—won by pole vaulter Thiago Braz da Silva—was warmly welcomed by the games’ host nation. Mr da Silva broke the Olympic record in Rio de Janeiro on August 15th, and went on to win the competition. He beat the…
RIO DE JANEIRO I had one of those “Only in Brazil” moments Monday night, sitting in a bar in Copacabana with the Olympics on TV in the background. We had a table of about 12 Americans. We were all eating a very late dinner around 11 p.m and sampling the…
Data from IAAF.org POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK DETAIL 5.50 5.65 5.75 5.85 5.93 5.98 6.03 6.08 1 2132 Thiago Braz da Silva BRA 6.03 OR – O XO O XO – XOR 2 2426 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.98 – – O O O O XX- X 3 3080 Sam…
The event was not on the European Games programme and was officially organised by the Azerbaijan Athletics Federation in conjunction with the European Athletics Association, rather than Baku 2015. But, with the actual team track and field competition in the Olympic Stadium having featured only the lowest tier of Europe’s…
Barcelona – Brazil’s one and only previous gold medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships came back in 1994 when Clodoalo da Silva won the now-defunct 20km road race title but pole vaulter Thiago da Silva doubled that meagre number when he sailed clear at the first time of asking…
