Matheus Santana

Personal information
Full name	Matheus Paulo de Santana
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1996-04-02)2 April 1996 (age 29) Rio de Janeiro,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight	91 kg (201 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	DC Trident UNISANTA
Medal record Men'sswimming Representing Brazil World Championships (SC) 2018 Hangzhou 4×100 m freestyle 2018 Hangzhou 4×50 m medley Pan American Games 2015 Toronto 4×100 m freestyle South American Games 2014 Santiago 100 m freestyle 2014 Santiago 4×100 m freestyle 2014 Santiago 4×100 m medley Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing 100 m freestyle 2014 Nanjing 50 m freestyle 2014 Nanjing 4×100 m mixed freestyle

Matheus Paulo de Santana (born 2 April 1996 inRio de Janeiro,^[2]Brazil) is a Brazilian swimmer.^[3] He will representDC Trident at theInternational Swimming League during the 2020 season.

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, atCorfu, 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 the2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships inDubai, but was cut because ofdiabetes.^[5]

At the2014 South American Games inSantiago,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 2014Maria Lenk Trophy inSão Paulo, Santana broke theJunior 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 the2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, but decided not to participate in this tournament due to the2014 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 the2014 Summer Youth Olympics inNanjing, he won a silver medal in theMixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay.^[8] In the50 metre freestyle, he won a silver medal with a time of 22.43, far from his best time.^[9] In the100 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 the2015 Pan American Games inToronto,Ontario, Canada, Santana won the gold medal in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay (where he broke thePan American Games record with a time of 3:13.66, along withMarcelo Chierighini,João de Lucca andBruno Fratus). He also finished 7th in the 100-metre freestyle.^[11][12]

At the2015 World Aquatics Championships inKazan, Santana finished 4th in theMen's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, again along withMarcelo Chierighini,Bruno Fratus andJoão 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 theMen'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 the4 × 100 metre mixed freestyle relay, along withBruno Fratus,Larissa Oliveira andDaynara de Paula, breaking theSouth American record with a time of 3:25.58.^[18]

Santana competed at the2016 Summer Olympics, where he helped the BrazilianMen's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay to go to the final.^[19]

At the2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) inHangzhou,China, Santana, along withCésar Cielo,Marcelo Chierighini andBreno Correia, won the bronze medal in theMen's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, with a time of 3:05.15, setting a South American record.^[20][21] He won another bronze medal in theMen's 4 × 50 metre medley relay, by participating at heats.^[22] He also finished 5th in theMixed 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay,^[23] 17th in theMen's 50 metre butterfly^[24] and 26th in theMen's 50 metre freestyle.^[25]

• Matheus Santana atWorld Aquatics
• Matheus Santana atOlympics.com
• Matheus Santana atOlympedia

• 1996 births
• Living people
• Swimmers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
• Brazilian male freestyle swimmers
• Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
• Pan American Games swimmers for Brazil
• Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
• Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic swimmers for Brazil
• Pan American Games gold medalists in swimming
• South American Games gold medalists for Brazil
• South American Games medalists in swimming
• Competitors at the 2014 South American Games
• Youth Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
• Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
• 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen

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