Samuel de Bona

Samuel de Bona
Personal information
Full name Samuel Menegon de Bona
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1990-10-01) 1 October 1990
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Samuel Menegon de Bona (born October 1, 1990 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.[1]

On April 2011, he won, for the first time, the Travessia dos Fortes (the most important competition of the calendar of aquatic marathons in Brazil).[2]

At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, de Bona placed 36th in the 5 km marathon, with a time of 1:01:20.9,[3] 44th in the 10 km marathon, with a time of 2:02:17.2,[4] and 16th in the 25 km marathon, with a time of 5:27:38.1.[5]

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, de Bona finished 12th in the 10 km Marathon Swimming.[6]

At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, he finished 6th in the Men's 5 km race.[7] Later, in the team event, he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with Allan do Carmo and Poliana Okimoto.[8][9]

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, he abandoned the race of Men's marathon 10 kilometres, after suffering blows to the nose and feeling sick.[10]

At the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, he finished 14th in the 5 km marathon.[11]

References

  1. "R7 Profile". R7 (in Portuguese). 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  2. "On the hand beat, Samuel de Bona is the champion of Travessia dos Fortes". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). April 3, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  3. "Results of the 5km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  4. "Results of the 10km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  5. "Results of the 25km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 23, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  6. "Heat disrupts and Brazilians get off the podium in the marathon swimming". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). October 22, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  7. "Results of the 5km marathon at 2013 Barcelona". OmegaTiming. July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  8. "Tireless, Poliana help male duo and invoice bronze by teams". SPORTV (in Portuguese). July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  9. "Results of the Marathon Swimming Teams at 2013 Barcelona". OmegaTiming. July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  10. "Blows to the face removes Brazilian of the dispute in the aquatic marathon in the Pan". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). July 12, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  11. "Results of the 5 km marathon at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. July 25, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
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