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Plauto Guimarães

Plauto Guimarães
Personal information
Full name Plauto de Barros Guimarães
Nationality  Brazil
Born São Paulo, Brazil
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Plauto de Barros Guimarães(born in São Paulo) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who participated in a Summer Olympics for his native country.

He was a member of Esporte Clube Pinheiros, São Paulo.

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he swam the 100-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals. He was also ranked to compete in the 4×200-metre freestyle, but at the Brazilian trials, Willy Otto Jordan persuaded the Brazilian principals to make a new classification proof, where Willy took the vacancy of Plauto.

In 1955, he had already retired from swimming.



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