Emanuel Silva
Canoe Sprint, Olympic athlete
1985 –
Who is Emanuel Silva?
Emanuel Eduardo Pimenta Vieira Silva is a Portuguese sprint canoer. He was born in Braga. A finalist at the 2004 Olympics, he is Portugal's most successful kayak sprinter since the 1980s.
Despite training with very limited resources, Silva became outright Portuguese individual champion over three distances at the age of just sixteen.
In 2003 he starred at the world junior championships in Komatsu, Japan, winning the K1 500 m gold medal and silver in the K1 1000 m. He then competed in his first senior world championships, in Gainesville, USA, placing a highly-creditable sixteenth in the K-1 1000 m.
In 2004 he reached his first senior final, finishing in seventh place at the European championships in Poznań, Poland. Still only eighteen years old, and technically a junior, he was the second-youngest competitor in the blue riband K-1 1000 m event at the Athens Olympics and exceeded expectations by reaching the final. There he finished in seventh place in a time of 3:33.862.
He followed up his Athens success by winning the 2005 European Under-23 Championship K1 1000 m final in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Later in the season he won the first senior medal of his career, the K1 1000 m bronze at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland.
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