Brazilian open water coach Eduardo Santos has a fractured humerus after falling in the athletes village at the FINA World Championships.
BestSwimming.br reports that Santos, whose nickname is Dudu, fell in the athletes village restaurant yesterday, on the same day one of his athletes earned a World Championships medal.
Santos reportedly fell in the athlete village dining hall, cutting his knee and fracturing a bone in his arm – the humerus, which runs from the shoulder to the elbow.
BestSwimming reports that Santos was treated at the hospital within the athletes village, and had a CT scan to get the full details of the injury. He was eventually diagnosed with a humerus fracture, and will require surgery. Santos will return to Brazil today to undergo the surgery.
Santos coaches Diogo Villarinho, who was part of the silver medal-winning Brazilian team in the Team 5K event on Thursday. Villarinho joined Olympic qualifiers Allan do Carmo and Ana Marcela Cunha on the three-person Brazilian crew for the team open water event. The trio took second out of 22 teams, finishing 17 seconds behind gold medalists Germany and just eking out silver over the team from the Netherlands.
Do Carmo made the Olympics with a 9th place finish in the men’s 10K on Monday, and Cunha punched her ticket to the Olympic Games with a 6th place showing in the women’s 10K the next day.
