Brazilian athletics has always produced good jumpers, but the tradition was only been in the horizontal disciplines. Very well known are the names of champions such as Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (Triple), Nélson Prudêncio (Triple), João Carlos de Oliveira (Triple and Long) and the more recent Jadel Gregório (Triple).

José Telles da Conceição has been the only Brazilian to obtain a global honour at the High Jump with his bronze at the 1952 Olympic Games, and since then only Jessé Farias de Lima has been able to elevate himself closer to those important international heights.

After reaching the Olympic final in Beijing and finishing tenth in his best result in an important event, de Lima ended the 2008 season among the world’s best

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