Arthur Mendes

Arthur Mendes
Personal information
Full name Arthur Franklin Mendes Filho
Nickname(s) Maddie Coats
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1993-09-07) September 7, 1993
Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly

Arthur Franklin Mendes Filho (born August 7, 1993 in Cáceres) is a Brazilian swimmer.[1][2]

He was at the 2011 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, in Lima, Peru, where he won a bronze medal in the 100-metre butterfly.[3][4]

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, Mendes won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay, where he broke the Pan American Games record with a time of 3:32.68, along with Marcelo Chierighini, Felipe França Silva and Guilherme Guido.[5][6][7] He also finished 7th in the 100 metre butterfly.[8]

At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Mendes finished 10th in the Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay[9][10] and 24th in the Men's 100 metre butterfly.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "COB Profile". COB (in Portuguese). 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ "CBDA Profile". CBDA (in Portuguese). 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Arthur Mendes Filho is bronze in Lima, 2011". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). August 25, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ "World Junior Championships ends with many broken records, and times of "big people"". ESPN (in Portuguese). August 22, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Without Thiago Pereira, Brazilian relay closes swimming with gold". O Estado de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). July 18, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Gold Weight: Yane dominates pentathlon, and swimmers win "by stroke"". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). July 19, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ "How it was the last day of the Pan in Toronto". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). July 19, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ "A day to celebrate and forget". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). July 17, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Results of the 4x100-metre medley at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. August 9, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Last heats day in Kazan". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). August 9, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Results of the 100-metre butterfly at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. August 7, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Bruno Fratus and Daynara in the semifinals, and 4 × 200 relay disappoints". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). August 7, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.


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