Rogério Romero
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| Full name | Rogério Aoki Romero | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||
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22 November 1969 Londrina, Paraná, Brazil |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Minas Tênis Clube, Belo Horizonte | |||||||||||||||
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Rogério Aoki Romero (born 22 November 1969 in Londrina, Paraná) is a former backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. A resident of Belo Horizonte, he won the gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. Twelve years later he once again did so at the 2003 Pan Am Games.
At 18 years old, Romero was at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he finished 8th place in the 200-metre backstroke, 20th in the 100-metre backstroke, and 18th in the 4×100-metre medley. At the 200-metre backstroke, he broke his first South American record, with a time of 2:02.26 at heats.
At the 1989 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Romero finished 6th in the 200-metre backstroke.
Participating in the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, he finished 13th in the 200-metre backstroke, and 20th in the 100-metre backstroke.
At the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, he won the gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke. Romero also finished 5th in the 100-metre backstroke.
Romero was in 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he finished 10th place in the 200-metre backstroke, and 21st in the 100-metre backstroke.
At the 1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), in Palma de Mallorca, Romero twice broke the South American record in the 200-metre backstroke, earning 1:57.35 in the heats, and 1:55.90 in the finals, finishing 4th. He also finished 5th in the 4×100-metre medley, along with Maurício Menezes, Gustavo Borges and José Carlos Souza.
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