Tomas Valdemar Hintnaus

Tomas Valdemar Hintnaus (born 15 February 1958) is a retired Brazilian pole vaulter.

He is a son of Czech immigrants, Lubomir and Marianne, who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1948 after the Communist takeover. They lived in the United States, but following the 1980 US Olympic boycott Hintnaus became estranged and represented Brazil instead, from 1983.cite news |first=Eduardo |last=Biscayart |url=http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/news/kind=2/newsid=42814.html#gomes+silva+lands+brazil+international+pole+vault |title=Gomes da Silva lands Brazil on the international Pole Vault map |work=IAAF.org |date=4 January 2008 |accessdate=2008-01-05 ]

His personal best was 5.76 metres, achieved in August 1985 in Zürich. This is a former South American record.b] It was broken by countryfellow Fábio Gomes da Silva in 2007.

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