Phelipe Rodrigues

Phelipe Rodrigues

Rodrigues at the 2016 Paralympics
Personal information
Born	10 August 1990 (1990-08-10) (age 34) Recife, Brazil
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Disability class	S10
Event(s)	Freestyle, butterfly
Medal record Representing Brazil Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing 50 metre freestyle S10 2008 Beijing 100 metre freestyle S10 2012 London 100 metre freestyle S10 2016 Rio 50 metre freestyle S10 2016 Rio 4×100 m freestyle 34pts 2016 Rio 100 metre freestyle S10 2016 Rio 4×100 m medley 34pts IPC World Championships 2015 Glasgow 50 m freestyle S10 2015 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S10 2015 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle 34pts

Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues (born 10 August 1990) is a paralympic swimmer from Brazil competing mainly in category S10 events. He was born with a club foot and had two surgeries when he was just four weeks old. After his second surgery when his foot was in the right position he had an infection which made under his knee and specially his tendon stop to grown disabling his right foot movements so as weakness from his knee below. He started swimming when he was 8 months as physiotherapy. He also tried many different sports but his passion since a child was swimming.

First competitions

His first competitions was for "Academia Movimento" located in Olinda-PE, he competed for 4 years for his team, in 2007 he moved to João Pessoa - PB and joined the state team C.I.E.F. where he archived regional gold medals and twice 3rd place at nationals competitions with able bodied swimmers (non-disabled).

Paralympic sports

Phelipe was part of the Brazilian team that travelled to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Paralympics. There he competed in the 100-metre and 50-metre freestyle events where he won silver behind compatriot Andre Brasil. He also swam 400-metre freestyle where he failed to make the final, and competed as part of the Brazilian 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley teams but even with the gold and silver medal winning S10 swimmers Brazil could not manage to win a medal finishing fourth and eighth respectively. On his next Paralympic Game at London 2012 he archived another silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle, fourth place in the 50-metre freestyle event which gave him a medal in Beijing 2008 and fifth in the 100-metre butterfly.

He also participated in the Para-Panamerican Games in Guadalajara - Mexico in 2011 where he took 5 medals, 3 silver medals (50m,100m, 400m freestyle) and 2 gold medals (4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley).

Following the 2012 Paralympics Rodrigues accepted an invitation to train in Manchester, where he stayed until the end of 2014 before returning to Brazil.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics Rodrigues won two silver and two bronze medals.

Progression

Events	2008	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
50m freestyle	24.64	24.63	24.24	23.99	23.89	23.47
100m freestyle	54.22	53.59	53.05	52.42	53.40	51.84
100m butterfly	1.04,39	1.02.41	1.00.83	58.79	59.73	----