Arnoldo Devonish Athlete

Arnoldo Vicente Devonish Romero (June 15, 1932 – January 1, 1997) was a track and field athlete from Venezuela, who won the first Olympic medal for his native country from South America. 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 and Leonid Shcherbakov.

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Birth dateJune 15, 1932
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1997

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