Thiago Pereira – Wikipedia

Thiago Pereira
Thiago Pereira at the Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro after the single title over 200 m were
Personal information
Name:	Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira
Nation:	Brazil Brazil
Swimming style (e):	Back, chest, lay, freestyle
Association:	Minas Tennis Club
Birthday:	January 26, 1986
Place of birth:	Round
Size:	1,87 m
Weight:	84 kg

Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira (Born January 26, 1986 in Volta Redonda) is a Brazilian swimmer. He lives in Belo Horizonte.

Pereira drew attention for the first time when he won the silver medal over 200 meters in 2003 as a seventeen -year -old at the Pan -American games in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. He had arrived in the top of the world a year later and was able to record his greatest success to date at the 2004 short railway championships in Indianapolis. He achieved the victory over 200 meters. In addition, he managed to complete the medal set in singles and with the season.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he belonged to the Brazilian team and swam over 200 meters to the final, where he finally took fifth place. Pereira’s most successful competition so far were the Pan -American games in 2007 in his home country in Rio de Janeiro. He won in six of eight competitions for which he was listed and achieved the silver and bronze medal in the other two. He not only became the most successful athletes of the games, but also broke the decades of marks by Mark Spitz, who won five times at the Pan -American games in Winnipeg in 1967. Taking these outstanding services into account, Thiago Pereira was also called for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the Brazilian contingent. There he again came into the final over 200 locations and improved to fourth place with regard to Athens. In 2010 he was the first South American to win the Swimming World Cup-in a total of 119 races evaluated, he achieved 19 wins. Pereira was able to repeat his outstanding success from 2007 at the Pan -American Games 2011 in Guadalajara in Mexico with six gold medals.

He then qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. There he left the defending champion Michael Phelps behind on the first day of the competition in the final over 400 meters, equalized his South America record and won the silver medal behind Ryan Lochte. A few days later, he reached fourth place over half the distance, as in Beijing.

On November 18, 2007, Pereira set up a new short track record in Berlin in Berlin 1: 53.14 minutes over 200 meters by undercut the previous best brand Ryan Lochte by 17 hundredths. Not even a month later he lost the record to the Hungary László Cseh.