Miguel Pires

Miguel Pires
Personal information
Full name Miguel Jerónimo Bento Martins
Pires
Nationality  Portugal
Born 16 July 1984
Faro, Algarve, Portugal
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 91 kg (201 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Louletano Desporte Clube
Coach Luis Cardoso/Julio Borja

Miguel Jerónimo Bento Martins Pires (born July 16, 1984 in Faro, Algarve) is a retired Portuguese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and a member of Louletano Desporte Clube, under head coach Luis Cardoso/Julio Borja.[2]

Pires qualified for the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, as a member of the Portuguese team, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3] Teaming with Luís Monteiro, Adriano Niz, and João Araújo in heat one, Pires swam an anchor leg in a split of 1:50.71, but the Portuguese team finished the race in seventh place and fourteenth overall with a national record of 7:27.99.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Miguel Pires". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Natação: Miguel Pires do Louletano sagrou-se campeão nacional absoluto nos 400 metros livres" [Swimming: Miguel Pires of Louletano was crowned national champion in the 400 meter freestyle] (in Portuguese). Diário Online do Algarve. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Whitten, Phillip (17 August 2004). "Men's 800 Free Relay, Day 4: US, Australia Qualify 1–2". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Portugueses em Atenas perdem na natação mas mantêm esperança no judo e vela" [The Portuguese in Athens lost in swimming, but maintained hope in judo and sailing] (in Portuguese). Ípsilon-Público. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 12 May 2013.