Rising Brazilian Sprint-Star Matheus Santana Breaks Eight-Year-Old Record Held By Cesar Cielo

Rising Brazilian sprint-star Matheus Santana broke an eight-year-old record that was previously held by none other than Cesar Cielo at the Paulista Swimming Championships this past weekend en route to a gold in the 100m freestyle final.

Santana swam a 49.83 to break the previous “junior category 2” mark held by Cielo at 50.18. Finishing second behind Satana in the final was Gabriel da Silva Santos almost a full second behind him in 50.73.

Santana is coming off an amazing season where he became the first Brazilian to win a Youth Olympic Games gold medal. While there in Nanjing, China, Santana won the 100m freestyle final with a time of 48.25. Santana also finished second in the 50m freestyle final. Preceding that gold, Santana won the 100m freestyle at the 2014 South American Games.

With so many great freestyle sprinters coming out of Brazil, Santana is right in the mix with some of the top competitors.

Also breaking a record was Fernanda Corbin who swam a 2:20.95 in the 200 IM to break the previous record held by Liva Santos at 2:22.16.

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Team Rwanda
9 years ago

He’s already been 48.25! so that “record” is not a big deal

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