Maciel_Santos

Maciel Santos

Maciel Santos

Brazilian boccia player

Maciel Sousa Santos (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian boccia player.

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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]

References

  1. [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. [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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