Gabriel Mangabeira
Mangabeira and Fernando Silva in 4x100m medley at 2007 Pan Am Games
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| Full name | Gabriel Semain Vasconcellos Mangabeira | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Manga" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Brazil
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January 31, 1982 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | AEAA/PMC, Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gabriel Semain Vasconcellos Mangabeira (born January 31, 1982) is a Brazilian competition swimmer who qualified for the men's 100-metre butterfly at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. Mangabeira also won a silver medal in the 100-metre butterfly at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Mangabeira was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982.
Mangabeira attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2001 to 2004. As a Gator swimmer, he received eighteen All-American honors. Mangabeira graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in food and resource economics in 2004.
He started swimming at the instigation of his grandfather, who was a swimming teacher, at the age of two years. He tried judo at 10 years old, but left due to his mother. His first club was the Canto do Rio in Niterói. At age 13, he moved to Fluminense. Three years later, he moved to Vasco, where he stayed until 2000.
He participated at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, where he finished 11th in the 100-metre butterfly, and 11th in the 200-metre individual medley. He was at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, where he finished 37th in the 100-metre butterfly.
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