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Stephanie Balduccini (born 20 September 2004) is a Brazilian
swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
. She competed in the
2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
at age 16. In the 100m freestyle, she finished 6th at the 2024 World Championships in Doha, and obtained a silver at the 2023 Pan American Games. She is the daughter of Natalie, a British descendant who was born in Brazil, and Bruno. They both enrolled her in an English language school as a child, so the first language she learned was English, not Portuguese, which she later mastered. She began her career at Paineiras do Morumby club as a child. Her first international experience came in 2019, with the South American Youth Championship. She stood out by winning the 50-metre freestyle event in Chile. In the 2020 Brasil Swimming Trophy, he won the 50m freestyle event in the skins format.


International career


2020 Summer Olympics

Balduccini qualified for Tokyo 2020 as the youngest Olympic swimmer in Brazil in 41 years (
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competed in Moscow in 1980 at the age of 15). The Paineiras club swimmer was responsible for the last partial, in Brazil's time-taking, at the Olympic selective in April at Parque Maria Lenk in Rio de Janeiro. She helped the team finish fourth in the world repechage, with a time of 3:38.59, and stamp their passport to Tokyo. At the 2020 Brazilian Olympic selective, she swam the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 55.03, a time that would be enough for a silver medal in the 2021 European Junior Championships. At the
2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
in Tokyo, Balduccini closed the Brazilian
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at heats, with a partial of 54.06 (the best in the team).


2021–24

In April 2022, she clocked a personal best of 1:57.77 to win the women’s 200 free at the Brazil Trophy, close to the South American record (1:57.28 obtained by
Manuella Lyrio Manuella Duarte Lyrio (born July 27, 1989) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. International career 2005–08 On September 9, 2005, at 16 years old, Lyrio broke the short-course South American record in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, with a ...
). She also clocked 54.64 in the 100m freestyle, a time close to Larissa Oliveira's South American record of 54.03. At the age of 17, she was at the
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held in Budapest, Hungary. Participating in the Brazilian 4x100m freestyle relay, formed by Ana Carolina Vieira,
Giovanna Diamante Giovanna Tomanik Diamante (born June 26, 1997 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay. She also finished 4th in the Mixed 4 × 100 metre ...
, Balduccini and Giovana Reis, she finished in 6th place with a time of 3:38.10. This was the first time Brazil had qualified a women's relay for a World Aquatics Championships final since 2009, and the best placement of the country in this race in Worlds at all times. She became the first Brazilian to go sub-54 in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay. In the 200m freestyle, she qualified for the semifinals in 8th place, with a time of 1:57.81. In the semifinals, she finished in 12th place, with a time of 1:57.54, her best personal time, 0.26 s from the South American record, and the best placement in the history of Brazil in this competition at World Championships. In the 100m freestyle, she qualified for the semifinals in 15th place, with a time of 54.48. In the semifinals, she finished in 10th place, with a time of 54.10, her best personal time, 0.07 s from the South American record and the best placement in the history of Brazil in this competition at World Championships. In the Brazilian 4x200m freestyle relay, formed by Balduccini,
Giovanna Diamante Giovanna Tomanik Diamante (born June 26, 1997 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay. She also finished 4th in the Mixed 4 × 100 metre ...
, Aline Rodrigues and Maria Paula Heitmann, she finished in 6th place with a time of 7:58.38. This was the best placement of Brazil in this race in Worlds at all times. In the 4 × 100 metre mixed freestyle relay, she finished 6th in the final, along with Gabriel Santos, Vinicius Assunção and
Giovanna Diamante Giovanna Tomanik Diamante (born June 26, 1997 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay. She also finished 4th in the Mixed 4 × 100 metre ...
, breaking the South American record and equaling the best mark in Brazil obtained in 2015. In the 4 × 100 metre mixed medley relay, she finished 9th along with
Guilherme Basseto Guilherme Dias Massê Basseto (born 12 March 1997) is a Brazilian swimmer. He was at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan. He competed in the men's 50 metre backstroke and in the men's 100 metre backstroke events at the 2018 FINA Wo ...
,
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and
Giovanna Diamante Giovanna Tomanik Diamante (born June 26, 1997 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay. She also finished 4th in the Mixed 4 × 100 metre ...
. She also finished 19th in the Women's 200 metre individual medley. At the
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, in Melbourne, Australia, in the
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, she broke the South American record with a time of 7:48.42, along with
Giovanna Diamante Giovanna Tomanik Diamante (born June 26, 1997 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100m freestyle relay. She also finished 4th in the Mixed 4 × 100 metre ...
,
Gabrielle Roncatto Gabrielle Gonçalves Roncatto (born 19 July 1998 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. She finished 5th in the 400m freestyle at the 2024 Doha World Championships. International career 2014–16 On 3 September 2014, participating in the Jos� ...
and Aline Rodrigues. Brazil's relay finished 7th in the final. She also finished 8h in the Mixed 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay final, 9th in the
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...
, 16th in the Women's 100 metre freestyle and in the
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, 20th in the Women's 100 metre individual medley, 25th in the Women's 200 metre individual medley and 28th in the Women's 50 metre freestyle. At the
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held in
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,
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, she had a lower-than-expected participation, but reached the semifinals of the Women's 100 metre freestyle, finishing in 13th place. She also reached the final of the
Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...
, finishing in 8th place and the final of the Mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, finishing in 6th place. She also finished 25th in the Women's 50 metre freestyle, 26th in the
Women's 200 metre freestyle A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardle ...
, 11th in the
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...
, 21st in the
Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardle ...
and 16th in the
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. She left Brazil after the Fukuoka World Championships to begin studying and training at the University of Michigan. The
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held in
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,
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, once again motivated the youngest swimmer on the Brazilian swimming team. There were five medals won, including a silver in the 100m freestyle, where she was defeated only by Olympic medalist
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, and a gold in the Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay where she was directly responsible for the victory, closing the relay with a split of 53.43, taking almost 1 second difference to the US relay. She also won silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay where Brazil almost broke the South American record, narrowly losing to the USA, and bronze in the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m mixed medley relays. At the
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, Balduccini managed to enter a World Championship final for the first time, in the 100 metre freestyle event. She qualified with a time of 54.07, her personal best, almost breaking the South American record. It was the first time that a Brazilian woman qualified for the final of this event at the World Championships. In the 100m freestyle final, Balduccini again broke her personal record, now with 54.05, finishing in a historic 6th place. In the
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, the team composed of Balduccini,
Maria Fernanda Costa Maria Fernanda de Oliveira da Silva Costa (born 5 September 2002) is a Brazilian swimmer. She finished 4th in the 400m freestyle, and 5th in the 200m freestyle, at the 2024 World Championships, in Doha. International career 2017—20 She partic ...
, Aline Rodrigues and
Gabrielle Roncatto Gabrielle Gonçalves Roncatto (born 19 July 1998 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. She finished 5th in the 400m freestyle at the 2024 Doha World Championships. International career 2014–16 On 3 September 2014, participating in the Jos� ...
obtained a historic result, reaching 4th place, Brazil's best placement in this event at the World Championships, destroying the South American record with the mark of 7:52.71. The quartet formed by Balduccini, Costa, Rodrigues and Ana Carolina Vieira also finished 6th in the 4x100m freestyle, equaling Brazil's best result in world championships in this event.Maria Fernanda quebra recorde sul-americano e é 4ª colocada em final inédita ao lado de Gabrielle Roncatto
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Balduccini, Stephanie 2004 births Living people Sportspeople from São Paulo Brazilian people of British descent Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazilian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Brazil 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen Competitors at the 2022 South American Games South American Games medalists in swimming South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Swimmers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in swimming