Tomás Valdemar Hintnaus
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Men's athletics
| ||
Representing Brazil | ||
Pan American Games | ||
1983 Caracas | Pole vault | |
Representing United States | ||
Olympic Boycott Games | ||
1980 Philadelphia | Pole vault |
Tomás Valdemar "Tom" Hintnaus (born February 15, 1958) is a retired Brazilian-born pole vaulter, model, and actor. Although he is an American citizen, he represented his native country, Brazil, in the Olympic Games following the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Early life
He is the son of Czech immigrants, Lubomir and Marianne Hintnaus, who escaped from their home country to West Germany, but were unable to emigrate directly to the United States. As an intermediate stop, they moved first to Brazil, where Tom was born. They moved to the United States in 1960 when he was two.
Competition
Hintnaus attended the
For Brazil, he finished fifth at the 1983 World Championships,[7] won the bronze medal at the 1983 Pan American Games,[8] and no-heighted in the final at the 1984 Olympic Games,[9] held less than 12 miles (20 km) from the neighborhood where he grew up.
His personal best was 5.76 metres, achieved in August 1985 in
Advertising
Hintnaus is also known as the first model in the underwear advertising campaign of designer Calvin Klein. The photograph by Bruce Weber of Hintnaus in white briefs, leaning against a thickly white-washed chimney on Santorini Island in Greece, became the iconic image of "male as sex object" in the 1980s.[citation needed] American Photographer magazine named the photo as one of "10 Pictures That Changed America."[10]
I worked so hard to be the best pole vaulter in the world and I ended up being more well known for putting on a pair of briefs.[11]
Acting
Hintnaus appeared in the
See also
References
- ^ "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ Hymans, Richard (2008). "The History of the United States Olympic Trials – Track & Field" (PDF). USA Track & Field.
- ^ "Olympic Boycott Games". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ISBN 978-0942257403.
- ^ a b Biscayart, Eduardo (4 January 2008). "Gomes da Silva lands Brazil on the international Pole Vault map". IAAF.org. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Sports World Specials: Multinational Vault". The New York Times. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ a b Tomas Valdemar Hintnaus at World Athletics
- ^ "Pan American Games". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Tom Hintnaus". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "10 Pictures that Changed America". American Photographer. January 1989. pp. 30–36. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. 7 May 2007.
- ^ "50undercover.com". www.50undercover.com.
External links
- Tom Hintnaus at IMDb