Maciel de Sousa Santos (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian

boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes w ...

player. Santos started playing boccia at the age of eleven and was already competing internationally at fourteen. He trains daily for six to eight hours. At the

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, he won the gold medal by defeating Yan Zhiqiang in the Individual BC2 event. At the

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, he won the bronze medal in the same event.

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Maciel Santos
at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics
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