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| Full name | Luiz Altamir Lopes Melo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1996-05-09)9 May 1996 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly,freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luiz Altamir Lopes Melo[a] (born 9 May 1996 inBoa Vista) is a Brazilian swimmer.[1][2]
He was at the2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, inDubai,United Arab Emirates, where he finished 5th in the 200-metre butterfly, 6th in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, 8th in the 200-metre freestyle, and 10th in the 400-metre freestyle.[3][4]
At the2014 Summer Youth Olympics inNanjing, he won a silver medal in theMixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.[5] He also finished 5th in the200 metre butterfly,[6] and 7th in the200 metre freestyle and400 metre freestyle.[7]
At the2015 Pan American Games inToronto,Ontario, Canada, Altamir won a gold medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, where he broke the Pan Am Games record with a time of 7:11.15, along withJoão de Lucca,Thiago Pereira, andNicolas Oliveira.[8][9]
At the2015 World Aquatics Championships inKazan, he finished 15th in theMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, along withJoão de Lucca,Thiago Pereira, andNicolas Oliveira.[10][11]
At the Open tournament held inPalhoça in December 2015, he obtained qualification for the2016 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle, with a time of 3:50.32, 0.7 seconds from theSouth American record.[12]
At the2016 Summer Olympics, he finished 32nd in theMen's 400 metre freestyle.[13] He also competed in theMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, where the Brazilian relay finished in 15th place.[14]
At the2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships inTokyo,Japan, he finished 4th in theMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay,[15] 8th in theMen's 200 metre freestyle[16] and 19th in theMen's 400 metre freestyle.[17]
At the2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) inHangzhou,China, Luiz Altamir Melo, along withFernando Scheffer,Leonardo Coelho Santos andBreno Correia, surprised the world by winning the gold medal in theMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, breaking the world record, with a time of 6:46.81. The relay was composed only of young people between 19 and 23 years and was not favorite to gold.[18][19] He also finished 6th in theMen's 200 metre butterfly[20] and 8th in theMen's 200 metre freestyle.[21]
At the2019 World Aquatics Championships inGwangju,South Korea, Brazil's young4 × 200 metre freestyle relay team, now withJoão de Lucca instead ofLeonardo Coelho Santos, lowered the South American record in almost 3 seconds, with a time of 7:07.12, at heats.[22] They finished 7th, with a time of 7:07.64 in the final.[23] It was the first time that Brazil's 4x200m freestyle relay had qualified for a World Championships final, and the result qualified Brazil for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.[24] He also finished 13th in theMen's 200 metre butterfly,[25] and 15th in theMen's 400 metre freestyle.[26]
At the2019 Pan American Games held inLima,Peru, he won a gold medal in theMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay,[27] breaking thePan American Games record; a silver medal in theMen's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (by participating at heats);[28] and a bronze medal in theMen's 400 metre freestyle.[29] He also finished 4th in theMen's 200 metre butterfly.[30]
He competed at the2020 Summer Olympics.[31]
