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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.