Nicholas Santos

Nicholas Santos
Nicholas Santos (2015)
Personal information
Surname:	Nicholas Araújo Dias dos Santos
Nation:	Brazil
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, butterfly
Society:	EC Pinheiros , São Paulo
Birthday:	14th February 1980 (age 40)
Place of birth:	Ribeirão Preto
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	87 kg
Medal table

Nicholas Araújo Dias dos Santos (born February 14, 1980 in Ribeirão Preto , state of São Paulo ) is a Brazilian dolphin and freestyle swimmer , one of the most successful swimming athletes in the country after his compatriot and freestyle colleague César Cielo, who was seven years his junior .

Career

Santos crowned his long swimming career with a world title over 50 meters dolphin in 22.20 seconds at the Short Course World Championships in Istanbul in the Sinan Erdem Dome on December 14, 2012. He expelled Chad le Clos ( South Africa , 22.26) and Tom Shields ( USA , 22.46 s) on their places. He missed Steffen Deibler 's world best time from the time of the skin-tight, ankle-length and buoyancy-promoting suits by 40 hundredths of a second, but set the short-course World Cup best time of the Venezuelan Albert Subirats in 2010.

He won a silver medal over the same distance at the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan in 23.09 s behind Florent Manaudou (22.97 s) and in front of the simultaneous László Cseh and Konrad Czerniak (23.15 s).

Santos was also able to climb onto the podium at the Summer Universiade 2007 in Bangkok . In the same year he won the 100 m crawl at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and took second place on the short sprint distance at the same event. There was also Pan America Gold in 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico, with Brazil's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

Nicholas Santos was also part of the Brazilian Olympic squad in Beijing .

Suspected doping in 2011

In 2011, Santos and three other Brazilian swimmers were suspected of abusing the masking agent furosemide .

He was then warned and not banned by the Brazilian association CBDA because contaminated dietary supplements were the cause. The FINA took the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport , which upheld that decision.

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Santos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nicholas Santos in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Santos on the-sports.org
• Nicholas Santos in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Opinion of the Brazilian Sports Arbitration Panel , reproduced on globoesporte.globo.com ( in Brazilian Portuguese ), accessed December 20, 2012
2. ↑ MEDIA RELEASE tas-cas.org July 21, 2011 ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )