Higor Alves
Higor Silva Alves is a Brazilian long jumper. A member of the host nation's track and field squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Higor registered his best jump at 8.19 m from the Brazilian Championships in São Paulo a month before the Games.
Higor competed for the host nation Brazil in the Athletics at the [2016 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump|men's long jump] at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Leading up to his maiden Games, Higor obtained a mark of 8.19 m to successfully earn the national title and clear the IAAF Olympic entry standard by four centimetres. In the qualifying phase, Higor spanned his opening legal jump at 7.59 m, but fouled in the succeeding two attempts that saw him tumble down the leaderboard, finishing in twenty-eighth place from a field of thirty-two athletes.