Emanuel Silva

Emanuel Eduardo Pimenta Vieira da Silva,[1] GOIH (born 4 December 1985), is a Portuguese sprint canoer.

Despite training with very limited resources, Silva became outright Portuguese individual champion over three distances (500 m, 1000 m and 10,000 m) at the age of just sixteen.

Still only eighteen years old, and technically a junior, he was the second-youngest competitor in the blue riband K-1 1000 m event at the Athens Olympics and exceeded expectations by reaching the final.

Later in the season he won the first senior medal of his career, the K1 1000 m bronze at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland.

At the London Olympic Games, he won the silver medal along with Fernando Pimenta in the K-2 1000 m event.