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Full name | Marcos Antônio Costa Ferreira de Macedo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte |
September 9, 1990 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Minas TC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcos Antônio Costa Ferreira de Macedo (born September 9, 1990 in Natal) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. is a Brazilian professional swimmer. He currently competes for the Fiat/Minas team. Marcos won the 4 × 100 m medley relay in the 2014 World Swimming Championship (short course).
He won the bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Monterrey.
At the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China, Macedo finished 9th in the 4×100-metre freestyle. At the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, he got a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
Macedo was part of the Brazilian delegation that finished in the first place the medal chart of the World Swimming Championship (short course) in Doha, with 7 golds, 1 silver and two bronzes (10 medals total). Marcos won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, in the team also composed by César Cielo, Guilherme Guido, and Felipe França Silva. He swam the butterfly course in 49.63, with team's total time of 3:21.14. He also qualified for the final on the men's 100 metre butterfly, and finished in 8th, 50.47.