Allan do Carmo

Allan do Carmo
Allan do Carmo (center), August 2015 after winning a test competition for the 2016 Olympics on Copacabana Beach
Personal information
Surname:	Allan do Carmo
Nation:	Brazil
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, open water
Birthday:	3rd August 1989
Place of birth:	Salvador (Bahia)
Size:	1.68 m
Weight:	68 kg
Medal table

Allan do Carmo (born August 3, 1989 in Salvador da Bahia ) is a Brazilian open water swimmer . In 2015 he won the silver medal in the 5-kilometer team competition with the Brazilian team at the World Swimming Championships .

successes

Do Carmo won his first medals in international competitions as early as the mid-2000s: He won bronze at the Pan American Games in Rio in 2007 over 10 kilometers and gold at the South American Games in 2006 in Buenos Aires over 5 kilometers. At the South American Games 2010 in Medellin, Colombia, there was bronze over 10 kilometers.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 do Carmo fought 14th over 10 kilometers.

At the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, ​​together with Poliana Okimoto Cintra and Samuel de Bona, he won bronze in the 5-kilometer team competition behind Germany (with Isabelle Härle , Thomas Lurz and Christian Reichert ) and two tenths of a second ahead of Greece (with Spyros Gianniotis ).

There were then two gold medals at the 2014 South American Games in Santiago de Chile: in the individual competition over 10 kilometers and with the 3-kilometer team.

In Kazan at the 2015 World Swimming Championships on the Kasanka , the Brazilian mixed team won silver over the 5 kilometers with Ana Marcela Cunha , Diogo Villarinho and do Carmo behind Germany (with Isabelle Härle, Rob Muffels and Christian Reichert) and ahead of the Netherlands ( with Sharon van Rouwendaal , Ferry Weertman and Marcel Schouten ).

Web links

• Allan do Carmo in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Portrait , pan.uol.com.br (Portuguese)