José Couto
Appearance
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Full name | José Couto | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Lisbon, Portugal | 27 February 1978||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
Club | Clube de Natação da Amadora | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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José Couto (born 27 February 1978) is a breaststroke swimmer from Portugal, who represented his home country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] He won two medals, a silver and a bronze, at the 1999 European Short Course Championships that occurred in Lisbon and one silver medal at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships in Moscow. He also won a gold medal, a silver medal and a bronze medal in World Cups.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "José Couto Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Portuguese male swimmers
- Male breaststroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Sportspeople from Lisbon
- Olympic swimmers of Portugal
- Portuguese swimming biography stubs