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Place of Birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
About Mauri Fonseca
- Mauri Fernandes Fonseca (born September 12, 1941 in Porto Alegre) is a former international freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Brazil.At the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, he swam the 100-metre freestyle and the 4×100-metre medley, not reaching the finals.
- A month before the trip to Japan, Fonseca began his fitness in Forte da Urca in Rio de Janeiro.
- He slept in barracks with the soldiers, there was no food with balanced diet, and even had a technician accompanying his training.
- In the same place, was the Brazil national football team.
- In the hours that did not train for the Olympics, he played as a left-winger of Brazil team.
- Just was not part of the team, then an amateur team, by being committed to swimming.In his career, he was Brazilian and South American champion..
- He was the first champion of the Brazil Trophy in the 100-metre butterfly.
- Later, he became professor of swimming in Porto Alegre.
- He also trained Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro, who participated in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow.
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