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Maciel Santos
Personal information
Full nameMaciel Sousa Santos
Born (1985-09-05) 5 September 1985 (age 38)
Crateús, Ceará, Brazil
Sport
Sport Boccia
Disability class BC2
Medal record
Boccia
Representing   Brazil
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual BC2
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Individual BC2

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

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. ^ "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. ^ "The BISFed World Ranking as of 12TH August 2015". BISFed. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2015.