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| Full name | Gabriel Semain Vasconcellos Mangabeira |
| Nickname(s) | "Manga" |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Born | January 31, 1982 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 88 kg (190 lb) |
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| Sport | Swimming |
| Stroke(s) | Butterfly |
| Club | AEAA/PMC, Rio de Janeiro |
| College team | University of Florida |
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Gabriel Semain Vasconcellos Mangabeira (born January 31, 1982) is a Brazilian international swimmer who qualified for the men's 100-meter butterfly at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. Mangabeira also won a silver medal in the men's 100-metre butterfly at the 2007 Pan American Games.
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Mangabeira was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982.
Mangabeira attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2001 to 2004. As a Gator swimmer, he received eighteen All-American honors. Mangabeira graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in food and resource economics in 2004.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Mangabeira made it to the finals of men's 100-metre butterfly where he finished in sixth place. Mangabeira also qualified to compete in the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in the men's 100-metre butterfly and men's 50-metre backstroke, but did not make it past the initial heats. Mangabeira returned to the Olympics in 2008 to compete in the men's 100-metre butterfly, but did not advance beyond the first heats.
In 2009, Mangabeira competed in the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in the men's 100-metre butterfly and men's 4×100-metre medley relay, and reached the finals in both events, finishing sixth in the individual race and fourth in the relay, which he swam with Guilherme Guido (backstroke), Henrique Barbosa (breaststroke) and César Cielo Filho (freestyle). He swam the butterfly leg for the Brazilian medley relay team.
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