Fernando Silva (swimmer)
Gabriel Mangabeira and Fernando Silva in 4×100-metre medley at 2007 Pan Am Games
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| Full name | Fernando Souza da Silva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Brazil
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April 7, 1986 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | EC Pinheiros | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Fernando Souza da Silva (born April 7, 1986 in Rio de Janeiro) is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Brazil. He swam for Brazil at the 2008 Olympics, as a member of the men's 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
Until 2006, Fernando did not swim 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle. He was a butterfly specialist. As he began to achieve good results in the faster swimming races, became a sprinter and established himself as one of the best in his country.
He was at the 2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Shanghai, where he finished 17th in the 200-metre butterfly.
Silva swam at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, where he finished 14th in the 100-metre butterfly, 17th in the 200-metre butterfly and was disqualified at the 4×100-metre freestyle.
At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle, beating the South American and Pan American records, with a time of 3:15.90, along with Eduardo Deboni, Nicolas Oliveira and César Cielo
Participating in the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, won the bronze medal at the 100-metre freestyle.
Silva was South American Champion in the 100-metre freestyle and the 100-metre butterfly in São Paulo 2008.
He was at the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Manchester, where he reached the 4×100-metre medley final, finishing 6th, and beating the short-course South American Record, with a time of 3:28.88, along with Guilherme Guido, Felipe França e Lucas Salatta. Silva also did the 100-metre freestyle final, finishing 8th and the 4×100-metre freestyle final, finishing 8th too, and finished 14th in the 50-metre freestyle.
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