Matheus Santana

Matheus Santana
Personal information
Full name Matheus Paulo de Santana
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1996-04-02) April 2, 1996
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight 90 kg (200 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club UNISANTA

Matheus Paulo de Santana (born April 2, 1996 in Rio de Janeiro,[2] Brazil) is a Brazilian swimmer.[3]

Santana started competing in national championships in 2008. His first national title came in the Youth I category, in November 2011. Santana swam for the Brazilian team in Multinations, at Corfu, Greece, in 2012. At the 2013 Youth South American Championships in Chile, he won the 100-metre freestyle and finished third in the 50-metre freestyle.[4]

Santana was classified to the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai, but was cut because of diabetes.[5]

At the 2014 South American Games in Santiago, Chile, Santana won three gold medals in the 100-metre freestyle, 4 × 100-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre medley, breaking the competition record in all of them.[3]

At the 2014 Maria Lenk Trophy in São Paulo, Santana broke the Junior world record twice in the 100-metre freestyle, with a time of 48.85 in the heats and 48.61 in the final. He qualified for the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, but decided not to participate in this tournament due to the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2][6]

At the Brazilian Junior and Senior Swimming Championships in May 2014, he broke the Junior world record in the 100-metre freestyle again, with a time of 48.35, the sixth best time in the world in 2014 in the event.[7]

At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, he won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay.[8] In the 50 metre freestyle, he won a silver medal with a time of 22.43, far from his best time.[9] In the 100 metre freestyle, Santana won the gold and broke for the Junior world record for the fourth time, with a time of 48.25, the fifth fastest time in the world in 2014.[10]

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, Santana won the gold medal in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay (where he broke the Pan American Games record with a time of 3:13.66, along with Marcelo Chierighini, João de Lucca and Bruno Fratus). He also finished 7th in the 100-metre freestyle.[11][12]

At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Santana finished 4th in the Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, again along with Marcelo Chierighini, Bruno Fratus and João de Lucca. César Cielo didn't swim the final - despite participating in the championships, he was feeling shoulder pain this day.[13][14][15] In the Men's 100 metre freestyle, he finished 9th with a time of 48.52, almost going to the final.[16][17] He also finished 6th in the 4 × 100 metre mixed freestyle relay, along with Bruno Fratus, Larissa Oliveira and Daynara de Paula, breaking the South American record with a time of 3:25.58.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 "Matheus Santana data". COB (in Portuguese). 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Matheus Santana improves world junior record in the 100m freestyle". Terra (in Portuguese). April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Matheus Santana data". Santiago 2014 Official Site. 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ "How to make a World Junior recordist: Matheus Santana". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). May 2, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Matheus Santana hits junior world record in the 100m". Estadão (in Portuguese). April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Cesar Cielo, Jeanette Ottesen Gray Scorch 100 Frees On Final Day of Maria Lenk". Swimming World Magazine. April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ "For the third time in 15 days, Matheus Santana Breaks Junior world record". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). May 9, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Matheus Santana shines, and 4 × 100m takes silver at Youth Games". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Matheus loses to the older swimmer of the games and wins the silver: "I didn't train for only this"". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Under the gaze of Popov, Matheus hits his record, won gold, and falls into tears". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). August 22, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Brazil is gold in the 4 × 100m freestyle and Thiago Pereira opens count towards record". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ "First day of five medals, and two gold medals to Brazil, but the party was Canadian". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Results of the 4x100-metre freestyle at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. August 2, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Brazil doesn't scale Cielo to the 4 x 100 m freestyle final in Kazan". Folha de S~Paulo (in Portuguese). August 2, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  15. ↑ "First day of finals in the World Championships". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). August 2, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Results of the 100-metre freestyle at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Felipe France in fourth in the 50 breast, and Brazil ranks for 4 finals". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Results of the 4 × 100 metre mixed freestyle relay at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. August 8, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
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