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Haitian track and field competitor

Sylvio or Silvio Paul Cator (October 19, 1900 – July 21, 1952)^[1][2] was a Haitianathlete most successful in the long jump.

He earned a silver medal in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Biography

Born in Cavaillon, Haiti, Cator was a footballer who played for the Trivoli Athletic Club and the Racing Club Haïtien.

He participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in the high jump, where he finished 15th, and the long jump, where he came in 12th.

Silvio P. Cator was a Haitian athlete most successful in the long jump.

Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

Although he was born in October in Cavaillon, a small town in Haiti's southern peninsula, Cator's story really begins in exile.

Of his own pocket.

Albert Mangonès, the founder of Haiti's first Historic 12 ISSN Silvio Cator Stadium, next to the hospital.

In the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he won a silver medal in the long jump.^[4] His 7.58 m effort was 16 cm short of gold (Edward Hamm). A month later, on September 9, 1928, Sylvio Cator broke Edward Hamm's two-month-old world record with a 7.93 m jump at the 1924 Olympic stadium near Paris.

He participated one more time in the long jump at the 1932 games in Los Angeles, where he took the 9th place.

As of 2021,