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Maciel Santos

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Maciel Santos
Personal information
Full nameMaciel de Sousa Santos
Born (1985-09-05) 5 September 1985 (age 39)
Crateús, Ceará, Brazil
Sport
SportBoccia
Disability classBC2
Medal record
Boccia
Representing  Brazil
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual BC2
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Individual BC2

Maciel de Sousa Santos[a] (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian boccia 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.[1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, he won the gold medal by defeating Yan Zhiqiang in the Individual BC2 event. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won the bronze medal in the same event.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Sousa and the second or paternal family name is Santos.

References

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  1. ^ "Athletes: Maciel Santos". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. ^ "The BISFed World Ranking as of 12TH August 2015". BISFed. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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