Kacio Freitas

Kacio Freitas
	Kacio Freitas (2018)
To person
Full name	Kacio Fonseca da Silva Freitas
Date of birth	May 13, 1994
nation	Brazil
discipline	Train / street
Most important successes
	Pan American Games 2015, 2018 - team sprint ;Südamerikaspiele 2014, 2018 - team sprint
	Last updated: April 23, 2020

Kacio Fonseca da Silva Freitas (born May 13, 1994 in Leopoldina ) is a Brazilian racing cyclist . He has been the dominant driver in his country in the short-term disciplines on the track since the mid-2010s.

Athletic career

Kacio Freitas won his first national title as a junior in road cycling : in 2010 he won the individual time trial and 2011 in the road race .

In 2011 Freitas started - still as a junior - at the Pan American Championships and won silver in the team sprint and bronze in the scratch . At the South American Games in 2014 he finished third in the team sprint together with Dieferson Borges and Flávio Cipriano . In 2015 he was third in the Keirin at the Pan American Championships . In the same year he won bronze in the team sprint at the Pan-American Games together with Cipriano and Hugo Vasconcellos . Since 2015 he has won a total of twelve Brazilian championship titles in sprint , keirin and in the 1000-meter time trial ( as of 2019 ).

Honors

In December 2018, Kacio Freitas was awarded the O Prêmio Brasil Olímpico as the best track cyclist in the country at the Teatro Bradesco in Rio de Janeiro .

successes

train

2011

Junior Pan American Championship - Team Sprint (with Diefferson Borges and Marcos Leite de Sousa )
Junior Pan American Championship - Scratch

2014

South American Games - Team Sprint (with Diefferson Borges and Flávio Cipriano )

2015

Pan American Games - Team Sprint (with Flávio Cipriano and Hugo Vasconcellos )
Pan American Championship - Keirin
Brazilian champion - sprint, keirin, 1000 meter time trial

2016

Brazilian champion - Keirin, 1000 meter time trial

2017

Brazilian champion - sprint, keirin, 1000 meter time trial

2018

South American Games - Team Sprint (with Flávio Cipriano and Joao Vitor da Silva )
Pan American Championship - Team Sprint (with Flávio Cipriano and Joao Vitor da Silva )
Brazilian champion - sprint, keirin

2019

Brazilian champion - sprint, keirin
Pan American Games - Team Sprint (with Flávio Cipriano and Joao Vitor da Silva )

Street

2010

Brazilian Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial

2011

Brazilian Junior Champion - Road Race

Web links

Kacio Freitas in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

↑ KACIO Fonseca da Silva Freitas. In: Ciclistas do Brasil. Retrieved April 16, 2019 (Portuguese).
↑ Leopoldinense Kacio Freitas é o melhor eleito atleta brasileiro de ciclismo de pista. In: leopoldinense.com.br. December 21, 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 (Portuguese).

personal data
SURNAME	Freitas, Kacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fonseca da Silva Freitas, Kacio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leopoldina

[com-1564-1] KACIO Fonseca da Silva Freitas. In: Ciclistas do Brasil. Retrieved April 16, 2019 (Portuguese).

[com-14940-2] Leopoldinense Kacio Freitas é o melhor eleito atleta brasileiro de ciclismo de pista. In: leopoldinense.com.br. December 21, 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 (Portuguese).