Nikita (swimmer)
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | João Reynaldo Costa Lima Neto |
Born | Pernambuco, Brazil | May 17, 1947
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Butterfly |
Medal record |
João Reynaldo Costa Lima Neto (born May 17, 1947 in Pernambuco), known as Nikita, is a former international butterfly swimmer from Brazil.[1]
At the 1967 Pan American Games, in Winnipeg, he won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre medley.[2]
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, in Mexico City, he swam the 100-metre butterfly and the 4×100-metre medley, not reaching the finals.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sports Reference Profile". Sports Reference. 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ "Brazil medals at 1967 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
Categories:
- 1947 births
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- Brazilian male butterfly swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Brazil
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from Pernambuco
- 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen
- Academic staff of the Federal University of Pernambuco
- Brazilian swimming biography stubs