The Brazilian swimming federation, the CBDA, has announced that after today’s big reveal of the Olympic relay invites, that they would add Louisville star Joao de Lucca to their Olympic lineup as a relay-only swimmer.
De Lucca, though not likely to swim the 400 medley, was the benefactor of the rule that, by a second relay invite, gives the Brazilians an extra relay-only swimmer. He instead will be the 6th member of the 400 free relay that has medal hopes in London.
De Lucca broke out last season with Louisville at the collegiate level, where he placed 3rd in the 200 free and 7th in the 100. His big long course meet came at the Maria Lenk Trophy, where he posted a 49.27 in the 100 free to earn this spot on the team.
He will join an impressive cast of characters on that relay, including Cesar Cielo, Nicolas Oliveira, Bruno Fratus, Marcelo Chierighini, and Nicholas Santos.
MALE (16)
FRATUS BRUNO – 50M FREE
CESAR CIELO – FREE 50M / 100M FREE
DANIEL Orzechowski – 100M BACK
FRANCE FELIPE SILVA – 100M BREASTSTROKE
FELIPE LIMA – 100M BREASTSTROKE
GLAUBER SILVA – 100M BUTTERFLY
HENRY BARBOSA – 200m BREASTSTROKE
HENRY RODRIGUES – 200M MEDLEY
JOHN OF LUCCA – 4x100m freestyle
KAIO MÁRCIO – BUTTERFLY 100M / 200M BUTTERFLY
LEONARDO De Deus – BUTTERFLY 200M / 200M BACK
MARCELO Chierighini – 4x100m freestyle
NICOLAS OLIVEIRA – 100M FREE
NICHOLAS Santos – 4x100m freestyle
CERDEIRA TALES – 200M BREASTSTROKE
Thiago Pereira – MEDLEY 200M / 400M MEDLEY
WOMEN (4)
DAYNARA DE PAULA – 100M BUTTERFLY
Fabiola Molina – 100M BACK
Graciele HERRMANN – 50M FREE
MARANHÃO JOANNA – 400M MEDLEY
I love the translations… 200 chest and John of Lucca 🙂 Priceless
Braden
Probably Pereira will also swim 100 back.. at least his coach said so.
He is very good relay swimmer.Always doing around 0.0xs relay starts(remember NCAA´s ).Nice add!!!