The Stade Sylvio Cator is a multi-purpose stadium in Port-au-Prince , Haiti . It is currently used mostly for association football matches, and is turfed with artificial turf .
5-583: The stadium bears the name of Haitian Olympic medalist and footballer Sylvio Cator . It was named after him in 1952. Before then the stadium was called the Parc Leconte . and then the Stade Paul-Magloire . It is where the Haiti national football team play its home games. It has hosted the 1973 CONCACAF Championship , where the home team were crowned as champions and the 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship where
10-506: The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he won a silver medal in the long jump. 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
15-504: The 9th place. As of 2021 , his silver medal is the best result of a Haitian athlete in the Olympics , with only one other medal (bronze) for the Haitian free rifle team in the 1924 Olympics. His world record long jump is still (2021) the Haitian national record. In 1946 Cator was elected Mayor of Port-au-Prince. Stade Sylvio Cator , a multi-use stadium in that city, was named after him and
20-512: The final match between the U.S. and Canada reached overcapacity of 30,000. The stadium was partly destroyed by the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010 , and a tent-city sprouted within its confines. This article about a sports venue in Haiti is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sylvio Cator Sylvio or Silvio Paul Cator (October 19, 1900 – July 21, 1952)
25-632: Was a Haitian athlete most successful in the long jump . He earned a silver medal in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics . 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. In
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