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 the
1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam he won a silver medal in the long jump. His effort was 16 cm (6 in) 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 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 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 was finished in the year of his death in
Port-au-Prince. In 1958, Haiti issued a series of seven stamps commemorating Cator's Olympic medal and world record 30 years before. ==References==