Luís Monteiro (swimmer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Luís Monteiro (swimmer)

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1983

Place of Birth: Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Portugal

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Luís Miguel Rodrigues Monteiro (born January 22, 1983) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.
He is a fourth-place finalist in the 200 m freestyle (1:52.33) at the 2001 European Junior Swimming Championships in Valletta, Malta.
Monteiro is a member of the swimming team for Football Club Porto (Portuguese: Futebol Clube do Porto), and is trained by long-time coach and mentor Rui Sardinha.Monteiro qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 1:50.93 (200 m freestyle) from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
In the 200 m freestyle, Monteiro challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including three-time Olympian Jacob Carstensen of Denmark.
He touched out Poland's Lukasz Drzewinski to take a fifth spot and twenty-ninth overall by 0.12 of a second in 1:51.78.
He also teamed up with Adriano Niz, João Araújo, and Miguel Pires in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.
Swimming the lead-off leg in heat one, Monteiro set his own personal best of 1:50.43, but the Portuguese team settled only for seventh place and fourteenth overall in a new national record of 7:27.99.