Fernando Silva (swimmer)


Fernando Souza da Silva is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Brazil. He swam for Brazil at the 2008 Olympics, as a member of the men's 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
Until 2006, Fernando did not swim 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle. He was a butterfly specialist. As he began to achieve good results in the faster swimming races, became a sprinter and established himself as one of the best in his country.
He was at the 2006 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, where he finished 17th in the 200-metre butterfly.
Silva swam at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, where he finished 14th in the 100-metre butterfly, 17th in the 200-metre butterfly and was disqualified at the 4×100-metre freestyle.
At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle, beating the South American and Pan American records, with a time of 3:15.90, along with Eduardo Deboni, Nicolas Oliveira and César Cielo
Participating in the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, won the bronze medal at the 100-metre freestyle.
Silva was South American Champion in the 100-metre freestyle and the 100-metre butterfly in São Paulo 2008.
He was at the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships, in Manchester, where he reached the 4×100-metre medley final, finishing 6th, and beating the short-course South American Record, with a time of 3:28.88, along with Guilherme Guido, Felipe França e Lucas Salatta. Silva also did the 100-metre freestyle final, finishing 8th and the 4×100-metre freestyle final, finishing 8th too, and finished 14th in the 50-metre freestyle.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, participated in the 4×100-metre freestyle, where the Brazilian team was disqualified.
At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, held in Rome, Silva ranked fourth in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Nicolas Oliveira, Guilherme Roth and César Cielo, with a time of 3:10.80, new South American record.
He was at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, where he finished 25th in the 50-metre freestyle, 30th in the 100-metre butterfly, and 49th in the 100-metre freestyle.

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