The Brazilian Paralympic swimming team made its debut on Monday morning (early morning in Brazil), the 31st, at the World Cup in ManchesterAnd England with 11 swimmers, eight of whom qualified for the finals to be held tonight in the United Kingdom (afternoon in Brazil). In addition to them, Carol Santiago, in category S12 (Visual Impairment), and Patricia Santos, category SB3 (Physical Mobility Disability), will compete in the Live Finals on Monday.
The World Championships kicked off this morning and will bring together 538 athletes from 67 countries until Sunday 6th August at the Manchester Aquatics Centre. Brazil is represented by 29 athletes from 10 states (CE, MG, PA, PE, PR, RJ, RN, RS, SC and SP), 15 women and 14 men.
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Category S8 (physical and movement limitations) athlete Cecilia Araújo was the first athlete from the country to make her competitive debut. She swam in the 400m freestyle, with a time of 5:16.59, and finished the heats in third place, advancing to the final. Then it was the turn of Sao Paulo player Ruan Sousa, who also qualified to make the decision. In the SB9 100m breaststroke, the swimmer completed the distance in 1 minute 11 seconds 35 minutes and finished his heat in second place.
Other Brazilians in contention for medals on Monday are Samuel de Oliveira of Sao Paulo (S5), Gabriel Araujo of Minas Gerais (S2), Gabriel Bandera of Sao Paulo (S14), Douglas Matera of Rio de Janeiro (S12). and Gaucho Susana Schnarndorff (S3) and Felipe Rodrigues of Pernambuco (S10).
Samuel ran the 50m freestyle in 32s 80s and was second in his heat, while Gabriel Araujo of Minas Gerais advanced to the final as having the eighth-best mark in the 50m breaststroke (1m 18s 80m).
Sao Paulo’s Gabriel Bandera swam 200 meters in the S14 category (intellectual handicap) in 1 minute 58 seconds 03 seconds, which was the second time in the qualifiers, and Douglas Matera in Rio de Janeiro recorded a time of 1 minute 09 seconds 19 minutes in the 100-meter backstroke, He is sixth in the entire race.
Finally, the last two athletes from the country to compete also qualified for the decision. Susana Schnarndorff completed the 100-meter breaststroke (SB4) in 2 minutes 34 seconds 32 minutes and placed seventh, while Felipe Rodriguez swam the 50-meter breaststroke in 23 seconds 75 seconds, placing second among all competitors in the event.
In addition to these Brazilians, Bruno Becker (S2), Estefani Rodriguez (S5) and Matheus Rein (S11) from Santa Catarina also swam this morning, but they did not qualify for the finals.
Bruno finished ninth overall in the 50-meter breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 42 seconds and 75 minutes. Estefani clocked 45secs 07sec in the 50m freestyle and finished sixth in his heat. Matthews Rein swam in the 50-meter freestyle in 27 seconds and 42 seconds and finished the race in ninth place.
In Manchester, competitions are held in two halves, with the qualifiers in the morning (early morning in Brazil) and the finals in the evening (afternoon in Brazil) – some feuds will not have qualifiers. All events are broadcast on YouTube by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Evening decisions can also be followed by SporTV 2.
The Brazilian team includes five swimmers with visual impairments (17.2%), five with intellectual disabilities (17.2%), and 19 with physical motor impairments (65.6%).
The composition of the Brazilian delegation was based on the 21 swimmers who had reached the rates stipulated by the CPB in two choices: the International Open Swimming Championships and the first national stage of the Loterias Caixa circuit for this method. Both competitions were held at the Paralympic Training Center in São Paulo this year. In addition, eight other swimmers were called up by the MQS for having the best marks in the relay.
Find out the Brazil Finals schedule on Monday 31:
400m Freestyle S8 – 5:42pm (Manchester) / 1:42pm (Brasilia)
Cecilia Araujo
100m breaststroke – SB9 – 5:50pm (Manchester) / 1:50pm (Brasilia)
Rowan Souza
50m Freestyle S5 – 6:06pm (Manchester) / 2:06pm (Brasilia)
Samuel de Oliveira
50m breaststroke SB1-SB2 – 6:14pm (Manchester) / 2:14pm (Brasilia)
Gabriel Araujo
200m Freestyle S14 – 6:47pm (Manchester) / 2:47pm (Brasilia)
Gabriel Bandera
50m breaststroke – SB3 – 7:43pm (Manchester) / 3:43pm (Brasilia)
Patricia Santos
Men’s 100m Backstroke S12 – 20:02 (Manchester) / 16:02 (Brasilia)
Douglas Matera
Women’s 100m Backstroke S12 – 20:06 (Manchester) / 16:06 (Brasilia)
Carol Santiago
100m breaststroke – SB4 – 20:16 (Manchester) / 16:16 (Brasilia)
Susanna Schnarndorf
50m Freestyle S10 – 20:36 (Manchester) / 16:36 (Brasilia)
Felipe Rodriguez
Caixa Lotteries program for high-level athletes
Athletes Bruno Becker, Cecilia Araujo, Douglas Matera, Gabriel Araujo, Gabriel Bandeira, Matheus Reyn, Samuel de Oliveira, Patricia Santos and Felipe Rodrigues are members of the Loterias Caixa High-Level Athletes Programme, Loterias Caixa’s one-on-one sponsorship program benefiting 91 athletes.
Sao Paulo team
Athletes Cecilia Araújo, Estefani Rodriguez and Felipe Rodriguez are members of Team São Paulo, a partnership between CPB and the Secretary of State for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of São Paulo, which benefits 106 athletes from 14 sports.
Communications Office of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee ([email protected])
