Allan Lopes Mamédio do Carmo (born 3 August 1989) is a Brazilian

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, who specialized in open water marathon. He is considered one of the fastest professional open water swimmers in the world, finishing near the top of

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World Cup races for the 10 km marathon. He also won a bronze medal for his category at the

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Career

Do Carmo qualified for the

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, after placing sixth in the 10 km Marathon Swimming Olympic test event at

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. He swam in the first-ever Olympic men's 10 km open water marathon, against a field of 24 other competitors, including former pool swimmers

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of Bulgaria and

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of Germany. Do Carmo finished the race in fourteenth place, with a time of 1:52:16.6, approximately twenty-five seconds behind winner

Maarten van der Weijden Maarten van der Weijden (born 31 March 1981) is a Dutch long distance and marathon swimmer born in Alkmaar., beijing2008.cn In 2019 Van der Weijden swam the Elfstedentocht for charity. He raised more than €6.1 million. Swimming career Van de ...

of the Netherlands. In 2010, do Carmo narrowly missed out of the medal podium, when he finished fourth for the 10 km open water marathon at the Pan Pacific Championships in

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, United States, with a time of 1:56:04.67, two minutes behind Canada's

Richard Weinberger Richard Weinberger (born June 7, 1990) is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Weinberger won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 10-kilometre open water marathon. He is the 2011 Pan American Games champion and also has a ...

. On that same year, do Carmo claimed a silver medal in the 5 km, but achieved again a fourth-place finish in the 10 km at the

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. He also finished 4th in the 10 km marathon. At the 2011 FINA World Championships in

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, do Carmo placed fifth in the 25 km marathon, with a time of 5:11:32.2; however, he displayed a poor performance in the 10 km marathon, when he finished the race farther from the medal podium in fiftieth place in 2:05:42.5. Few months later, do Carmo recovered from a major setback with a seventh-place time of 2:08.28 in the 10 km at the

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. In 2012, do Carmo offered another shot for a bid to the

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by participating at the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier, held in Setubal, Portugal. He competed against a field of 61 open water swimmers including Stoychev, David Davies of Great Britain, and

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of Tunisia, who previously won an Olympic gold medal from the pool. Do Carmo, however, failed to qualify for his supposedly second Olympics, after finishing in nineteenth place, with a time of 1:46:38.0. At the 2013 FINA World Championships in

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, do Carmo finished seventh in the men's 10 km race. Later, in the team event, he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with

Samuel de Bona Samuel Menegon de Bona (born 1 October 1990 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in the open water marathon. He trained at Grêmio Náutico União, in Porto Alegre. In April 2011, he won, for the first time, the Travessia ...

and

Poliana Okimoto Poliana Okimoto (born March 8, 1983) is a Brazilian long-distance swimmer. Career She was at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, where she finished 18th in the 800-metre freestyle. She won the Travessia dos Fortes in 2 ...

. He also swam the 25 km race, finishing 5th, reaching 3 seconds behind the race winner. At the 2015 FINA World Championships in

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, he finished 9th in the 10 km marathon. Three days later, he won the silver medal in the Mixed 5km Team Event. On August 1, he finished 16th in the 25 km marathon. At the

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, he finished in 18th place in the Men's marathon 10 kilometre. At the 2017 FINA World Championships in

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, he finished 13th in the 25 km marathon and 29th in the 10 km marathon. He also participated at the Mixed 5km Team Event, along with

Viviane Jungblut Viviane Eichelberger Jungblut (born 29 June 1996, in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian swimmer. International career At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she finished 5th in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, 9th in the 400 metre freest ...

Ana Marcela Cunha Ana Marcela Jesus Soares da Cunha (born 23 March 1992) is a Brazilian swimmer who specializes in the open water swimming marathon. She is considered one of the best open water swimmers in history, having obtained 17 medals in FINA World Aquatics ...

and

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, finishing 6th.

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