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Full name | Alfredo Carlos Botelho Machado | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Fadola [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3 June 1953||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 September 2012 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 59)||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alfredo Carlos Botelho Machado (3 June 1953 – 25 September 2012) was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who competed at one Summer Olympics for his native country.[2]
He began swimming for Fluminense and then moved to Flamengo.[1]
He was at the 1971 Pan American Games, in Cali, where he won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle,[3] breaking the South American record.[4] He also finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle, 5th in the 400-metre individual medley (breaking the Brazilian record with a time of 4:54.7),[5] 7th in the 200-metre freestyle[6] and 8th in the 1500-metre freestyle.[7]
At the 1972 Summer Olympics, in Munich, he swam the 200-metre freestyle, 400-metre freestyle, 1500-metre freestyle, and the 4×200-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals.[2] He broke the Brazilian record in the 1500-metre freestyle in Munich. [8]
At the 1973 Summer Universiade, in Moscow, Machado won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with José Namorado, James Huxley Adams and José Aranha.[9][10]
He died at age 59.[1]