Carlos Almeida (swimmer)

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Carlos Almeida
Personal information
Full name Carlos Fernandes Esteves de
Almeida
Nationality  Portugal
Born 4 August 1988
Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Clube de Natação da
Amadora (POR)[1]
College team Louisville Cardinals (USA)[1]
Coach Filipe Coelho (POR)[1]

Carlos Fernandes Esteves de Almeida (also Carlos Almeida, born August 4, 1988 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] He is a two-time Olympian, a 2011 Big East Conference champion, and a current Portuguese record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke. Almeida is a resident athlete for Amadora Swimming Club in Lisbon (Portuguese: Clube de Natação da Amadora), and is coached and trained by Filipe Coelho.[1]

Almeida made his official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 200 m breaststroke. He cleared a FINA B-cut of 2:15.00 from the Dutch Open in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3][4] Almeida blasted a 2:15 barrier and a new Portuguese record of 2:13.34 to top the second heat, but he finished only in thirty-second overall from the preliminaries.[5]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Almeida qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke by establishing a Portuguese record and achieving a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:01.19 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[6][7] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including fellow two-time Olympian Martin Liivamägi of Estonia. He raced to third place by two tenths of a second (0.20) behind Greece's Panagiotis Samilidis in 1:01.40. Almeida failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall out of 44 swimmers on the first day of preliminaries.[8]

Almeida is a member of the swimming team for the Louisville Cardinals, and currently, a fourth-year senior with a sports administration major at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Almeida also became the first swimmer in his school's history to claim a 200 m breaststroke title at the NCAA Division I Championships in Federal Way, Washington. He blasted a time of 1:51.88 to match former Olympic silver medalist Ed Moses for the fourth-fastest all time in collegiate history.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Carlos Almeida". London 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Carlos Almeida". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 31. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dutch Open: Day Four Finals Features World Record, Several National Standards". Swimming World Magazine. 9 December 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 100 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "European Long Course Championships: Close Calls, Fast Times On Second Night". Swimming World Magazine. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships: Carlos Almeida Wins Louisville's First NCAA Title, Tying Closest 200 Breast Race in NCAA History". Swimming World Magazine. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  10. ↑ Martin, Ryan (3 April 2012). "Swimmer Carlos Almeida wins NCAA National Championship". The Louisville Cardinal. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

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