Hugo Passos

Hugo Passos
Personal information
Full name Hugo Miguel da Silva Passos
Nationality  Portugal
Born 27 September 1979
Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Style Greco-Roman
Club Casa Pia Atlético Clube
Coach David Maia

Hugo Miguel da Silva Passos (born September 27, 1979, in Lisbon) is an amateur Portuguese Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's lightweight category.[1] He won two gold medals in his respective category at the Deaflympics (2001 and 2005), and set a historic milestone as the first legally deaf athlete to represent Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] Despite having a hearing disability, Passos trained throughout his sporting career as a member of the wrestling team for Casa Pia Athletics Club (Portuguese: Casa Pia Atlético Clube) with the assistance of his personal coach and 1996 Olympic wrestler David Maia.[3]

Passos qualified as a lone wrestler for the Portuguese squad in the men's 60 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he finished twenty-eighth from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegrobut managed to fill up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling through a tripartite invitation.[4][5] Passos lost his opening match to Romania's Eusebiu Diaconu on technical superiority, and was wretchedly pinned by U.S. wrestler and two-time Olympian Jim Gruenwald with only nineteen seconds left in time, leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing penultimate out of 22 wrestlers in the final standings.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Hugo Passos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Surdolímpicos: Hugo Passos quer ir aos JO'2016" [Deaflympics: Hugo Passos wants to go to 2016 Summer Olympics] (in Portuguese). Record. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Silva, Carlos (29 July 2013). "Ouro para Hugo Passos nos Surdolímpicos" [Gold for Hugo Passos in Deaflympics] (in Portuguese). Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Abbott, Gary (18 July 2004). "Olympic Games preview at 66 kg/145.5 lbs. in men's freestyle". USA Wrestling (The Mat). Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Abbott, Gary (22 April 2004). "FILA announces 12 wildcard selections for the 2004 Olympic Games". USA Wrestling (The Mat). Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Wrestling: Men's Greco-Roman 60kg". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Luta greco-romana: Hugo Passos afastado na 1ª ronda" [Greco-Roman wrestling: Hugo Passos eliminated in the first round] (in Portuguese). Público. 25 August 2004. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Gardner thrown in OT, loses bid for repeat wrestling gold". ESPN. 25 August 2004. Retrieved 26 June 2014.

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