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Pedro Pichardo
	Pichardo competing at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix (May 2015)
Personal information
Full name	Pedro Pablo Pichardo Peralta
Nickname	4P
Nationality	Portuguese
Born	30 June 1993 (age 31); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Country	Portugal
Sport	Athletics
Event	Triple jump
Club	Benfica
Coached by	Jorge Pichardo (his father)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2020 Tokyo, Gold
Highest world ranking	1 (weeks 99)
Personal bests	Triple jump: 18.08 m (59 ft 3+3⁄4 in) NR (for Cuba); 18.04 m (59 ft 2 in) NR; Indoors; Triple jump: 17.48 m (57 ft 4 in) NR;
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Portugal
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
Diamond League
European Team Championships
Representing Cuba
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Pan American Games
World Junior Championships
CAC Junior Championships

Pedro Pablo Pichardo Peralta (Spanish pronunciation: [piˈtʃaɾðo], Portuguese pronunciation: [piˈʃaɾðu]; born 30 June 1993) is a Cuban-born Portuguese triple jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a Portuguese national record of 17.98 m (58 ft 11+3⁄4 in) and the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was world champion in 2022, and could not defend his title in 2023 due to injury.

Pichardo was the 2012 World Junior Champion and the 2013 World Championship silver medalist. His 17.79 m (58 ft 4+1⁄4 in) in early 2014 was the best triple jump of the year. In 2015, his 17.94 m (58 ft 10+1⁄4 in) made him the #6 performer ever. A week later he improved to 18.06 m (59 ft 3 in), making him the No. 3 performer ever and the best performance the world has seen since 1996 (when Pichardo was only three years old).^[3] At club level, he represents Benfica in Portugal.

Career

On 15 May 2015, Pichardo jumped 18.06 m (59 ft 3 in) (0.9 m/s) at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix. His performance made him the number 3 performer ever at the time. With Christian Taylor also jumping 18.04 m (59 ft 2 in) minutes later, this was the first competition in history to have two men jump over 18 m, being called "the greatest triple jump competition ever."^[4] Pichardo's 18.06 m also improved his own Cuban national record of 17.94 m (58 ft 10+1⁄4 in) set one week earlier in Havana. That mark erased Yoelbi Quesada's nearly 18-year-old record, and put Pichardo in position #6 of the all-time top ten performers.^[5] Back in 2013, Pichardo had won Athletissima with a mark of 17.58 m.^[6]

On 28 May 2015, Pichardo jumped 18.08 m (59 ft 3+3⁄4 in) (0.0 m/s) at the Copa Cuba-Memorial Barrientos meet in Havana, improving his own Cuban national record set two weeks earlier by 2 cm.^[7]

In April 2017, Pichardo disappeared from the Cuban national team's meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, appearing in Portugal days later.^[8] After signing a contract with Portuguese club S.L. Benfica on 27 April,^[9] he gained Portuguese citizenship on 7 December^[10] and was eligible to compete for Portugal on international stage since August 2019.^[11] Therefore, the first major competition in which Pichardo represented the Portuguese colours was the 2019 World Championships, finishing fourth in the final.^[11]

On 4 May 2018, Pichardo established a new triple jump national record for Portugal with a winning jump of 17.95 m during the Doha leg of 2018 Diamond League series.^[12] He also won gold medals at the 2019 IAAF Diamond League, with a personal season best of 17.53 m,^[13] and at the 2020 IAAF Diamond League, with a mark of 17.40 m.

Representing Portugal, Pichardo won the gold medal at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships on 7 March 2021.^[14] On 6 July, Pichardo jumped 17.92 m (+0.4) at the Gyulai István Memorial, beating Hugues Fabrice Zango.

On 5 August 2021, Pichardo competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan representing Portugal. He won the gold medal in the triple jump event and the country's fifth ever gold medal.^[15]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Measure	Notes
Representing Cuba
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona	1st	Triple jump	16.79 m	WJL
2013	World Championships	Moscow	2nd	Triple jump	17.68 m
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot	2nd	Triple jump	17.24 m
2015	Pan American Games	Toronto	1st	Triple jump	17.54 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing	2nd	Triple jump	17.73 m
Representing Portugal
2019	World Championships	Doha	4th	Triple jump	17.62 m
2021	European Indoor Championships	Torun	1st	Triple jump	17.30 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo	1st	Triple jump	17.98 m	NR
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade	2nd	Triple jump	17.46 m	NIR
	World Championships	Eugene	1st	Triple jump	17.95 m
	European Championships	Munich	1st	Triple jump	17.50 m
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul	1st	Triple jump	17.60 m	NIR
2024	European Championships	Rome	2nd	Triple jump	18.04 m
2024	Olympic Games	Paris	2nd	Triple jump	17.84 m