Asnoldo_Devonish
Asnoldo Devonish
Venezuelan athlete
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.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (June 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
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 by the IOC for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement.[3]