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Mauri Fernandes Fonseca (born 12 September 1941 in Porto Alegre) is a former international freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Brazil.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, he swam the 100-metre freestyle and the 4×100-metre medley, not reaching the finals. A month before the trip to Japan, Fonseca began his fitness in Forte da Urca in Rio de Janeiro. He slept in barracks with the soldiers, there was no food with balanced diet, and even had a technician accompanying his training. In the same place, was the Brazil national football team. In the hours that did not train for the Olympics, he played as a left-winger of Brazil team. Just was not part of the team, then an amateur team, by being committed to swimming.
In his career, he was Brazilian and South American champion.. He was the first champion of the Brazil Trophy in the 100-metre butterfly. Later, he became professor of swimming in Porto Alegre. He also trained Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro, who participated in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow.
References
External links
Mauri Fonseca at World Aquatics
Mauri Fonseca at Olympedia
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- El Privilegio de Amar
- Daftar pemimpin negara tahun 2012
- Mauri Fonseca
- Mauri (disambiguation)
- Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro
- Susana Schnarndorf
- Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
- Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
- Brazil at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- El Privilegio de Amar
- 2 euro commemorative coins
- List of The Ocean Race sailors
