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Full name | Aram Boghossian | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazil | |||||||||||||
Born |
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
November 17, 1929 |||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aram Boghossian (born November 17, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Brazil.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he finished 8th in the 4×200-metre freestyle final, and swam the 100-metre freestyle, finishing 14th at semifinals.
He broke the Brazilian record of the 100-metre freestyle in 1948. His record was broken only in 1956 by Haroldo Lara.
At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Ricardo Capanema, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto.
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 100-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals.
On 2004, he still swim, now in the Masters category.