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Full name | Ricardo Esberad Capanema | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazil | ||||||||||||||
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1] | 19 September 1933||||||||||||||
Died | 10 May 1998 | (aged 66)||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ricardo Esberad Capanema (19 September 1933 – 10 May 1998) was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil.[1][2] At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Aram Boghossian, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto.[3] At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 400-metre freestyle, not reaching the final.[2]