Gabriel da Silva Santos (born 4 May 1996) is a Brazilian

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. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the

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, finishing 5th.

Biography

At the

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, in the Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, the Brazilian team composed of Santos,

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and

Marcelo Chierighini Marcelo Chierighini (born 15 January 1991) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. In the 100 metre freestyle, he was an Olympic finalist at the Rio 2016 Games, and four times in a row a finalist at the World Championships in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 20 ...

achieved a historic result by winning the silver medal, the best Brazilian result of all time at the World Championships in this race. Brazil beat the South American record of 2009, still in the super-suits era, with a time of 3:10.34, just 0.28 from the US team. The last medal of Brazil in this race, in Worlds, was obtained in 1994. He also finished 14th in the Men's 100 metre freestyle. At the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in

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, he won the gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, along with

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Pedro Spajari Pedro Henrique Silva Spajari (born February 18, 1997, in Amparo) is a Brazilian swimmer. International career 2015–2019 At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships held in Singapore, he finished 5th in the 100 metre freestyle., and ...

. He also finished 12th in the Men's 100 metre freestyle and 12th in the Men's 50 metre freestyle. In February 2020, the

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(CAS) issued a final judgement that Santos had committed an anti-doping rule violation for unintentional use of clostebol as a consequence of "''cross-contamination through the sharing of bathroom towels ... with a family member who had been using Clostebol under medical prescription''". He had been earlier issued with a 12-month suspension by

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, but this was overturned by the CAS ruling. Nevertheless, it was reported that Santos was still indefinitely banned from competing in the

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due their policy of barring swimmers who have ever received even a provisional suspension.D'Addona, Dan (29 July 2019)
"International Swimming League Bans Gabriel Santos, Suspends Shayna Jack After Positive Tests"
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''. Retrieved 20 January 2022. In June 2021, he qualified to represent Brazil at the

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