Allan Lopes Mamédio do Carmo (born 3 August 1989) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.[1] He is considered one of the fastest professional open water swimmers in the world, finishing near the top of FINA World Cup races for the 10 km marathon. He also won a bronze medal for his category at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.[2]
In 2010, do Carmo narrowly missed out of the medal podium, when he finished fourth for the 10 km open water marathon at the Pan Pacific Championships in Long Beach, California, United States, with a time of 1:56:04.67, two minutes behind Canada's Richard Weinberger.[5] On that same year, do Carmo claimed a silver medal in the 5 km, but achieved again a fourth-place finish in the 10 km at the South American Games in Medellín.[6] He also finished 4th in the 10 km marathon.
At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, do Carmo placed fifth in the 25 km marathon, with a time of 5:11:32.2; however, he displayed a poor performance in the 10 km marathon, when he finished the race farther from the medal podium in fiftieth place in 2:05:42.5.[7] Few months later, do Carmo recovered from a major setback with a seventh-place time of 2:08.28 in the 10 km at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.[8]
In 2012, do Carmo offered another shot for a bid to the Summer Olympics in London by participating at the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier, held in Setubal, Portugal.[9] He competed against a field of 61 open water swimmers including Stoychev, David Davies of Great Britain, and Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia, who previously won an Olympic gold medal from the pool. Do Carmo, however, failed to qualify for his supposedly second Olympics, after finishing in nineteenth place, with a time of 1:46:38.0.[10][11]
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