Miguel Machado
.jpg) Miguel Machado at the Masters European Swimming Championships - London 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Miguel Alexandre Cabral Machado |
| National team |  Portugal |
| Born | May 8, 1975 Porto, Portugal |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle, medley |
| Club | Futebol Club do Porto, Clube Naval do Funchal, City of Coventry Swim Team (GBR) |
Miguel Alexandre Cabral Machado (born May 8, 1975) is a former competition swimmer from Portugal, who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]
Machado was born in Porto, Portugal. He attended the Faculty of Engineering at Porto University and the Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, where he swam for the City of Glasgow Swim Team (COGST).
Machado represented the Clube Fluvial Portuense at a younger age, but made his debut on the Portuguese National Team as a swimmer from FC Porto.
From 1996 to 2007 Machado also represented other Portuguese Clubs such as CDUP - Centro Desportivo e Universitário do Porto and the Clube Naval do Funchal from the Atlantic Madeira Island.
Machado was the 100m freestyle (short course) Portuguese national record holder between 1995 and 1996, with the mark of 51.02s.
Machado later played water polo at the Clube Naval Povoense from the city of Povoa de Varzim.
He retired from competitive sports in 2008 but has recently returned to the pools and has joined the City of Coventry Swim Team as a Masters swimmer.