Emanuel Silva

Emanuel Eduardo Pimenta Vieira da Silva,[1] GOIH (born 4 December 1985), is a Portuguese sprint canoer. He was born in Braga. A finalist at the 2004 Olympics and medalist at the 2012 Olympics, he is Portugal's most successful kayak sprinter since the 1980s.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pimenta and the second or paternal family name is Vieira da Silva.
GOIH
Emanuel Silva
Silva in 2008
Personal information
Full nameEmanuel Eduardo Pimenta Vieira da Silva
NationalityPortuguese
Born (1985-12-04) 4 December 1985
Braga, Portugal
Sport
CountryPortugal
SportCanoeing
Event(s)K-1
ClubSporting CP
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Portugal
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2012 LondonK-2 1000m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 DuisburgK-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2014 MoscowK-4 1000 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2011 BelgradeK-4 1000 m
Gold medal – first place2014 BrandenburgK-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2013 Montemor-o-VelhoK-4 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place2005 PoznańK-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place2010 TrasonaK-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2011 BelgradeK-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2014 BrandenburgK-4 1000 m

Despite training with very limited resources, Silva became outright Portuguese individual champion over three distances (500 m, 1000 m and 10,000 m) 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.

In 2006 he retained his European under-23 title at Schinias, Greece. In senior competition he achieved his best-ever world championship placing, seventh, at the World Championships in Szeged.

Silva was not as successful at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m event.

At the London Olympic Games, he won the silver medal along with Fernando Pimenta in the K-2 1000 m event. Since then he has also become world champion in the K-2 500 m in 2013 with João Ribeiro.

Silva is now a member of the Clube Náutico de Prado, Vila de Prado, Portugal.

Orders

References
  1. Portugueses | Tóquio 2020 | PÚBLICO
  2. "Nelson Évora condecorado por Cavaco Silva" [Nelson Évora decorated by Cavaco Silva] (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015. os canoístas Emanuel Silva


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