Victor Alcará

Victor Alcará
Personal information
Full nameVictor Guimarães Alcará
NationalityBrazilian
Born (2000-09-28) 28 September 2000 (age 24) [1]
São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil [2]
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) [3]
Weight84 kg (185 lb) [4]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago 4×100 m mixed free
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago 4×100 m medley

Victor Guimarães Alcará (born 2000 in São João da Boa Vista) is a Brazilian swimmer.[5]

He began his career in 2010, at the age of 10, when he started training in his hometown. In 2017 he went to Corinthians and in 2023 he was hired by Esporte Clube Pinheiros.[6]

At the 2021 Junior Pan American Games he won three gold medals in the 100m freestyle and 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle relays, as well as a silver in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.[7][8][9] With this, he won a direct place for the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023 in the 50m freestyle.[10]

At the 2021 South American Swimming Championships, he won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m metre freestyle relay.[11]

He was at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, where he finished 6th in the Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay[12]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, he won two gold medals in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle and mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relays of Brazil.[13][14] He also finished 5th in the 50 metre freestyle, with a time of 22.27. [15]

References

  1. ^ World Aquatics Alcará Profile
  2. ^ Alcará Birth place
  3. ^ Alcará weight, height, birth date
  4. ^ Alcará weight, height, birth date
  5. ^ "Alcará". CBDA. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  6. ^ Alcará weight, height, birth date
  7. ^ Alcará weight, height, birth date
  8. ^ Natação dá medalhas ao Brasil no Pan Junior
  9. ^ Brasil tem os 7 maiores medalhistas da natação
  10. ^ Natação brasileira se despede de Cali 2021 com 40 medalhas e 12 vagas para os Jogos Pan-americanos Santiago 2023
  11. ^ O melhor revezamento 4x100m livre masculino da história do Brasil em Sul-Americanos
  12. ^ Guilherme Costa bate na trave no pódio dos 400m livre no Mundial de Esportes Aquáticos
  13. ^ Pan 2023: Brasil faz história no revezamento da natação; feminino é bronze
  14. ^ Pan-Americano 2023: confira posição do Brasil e quadro de medalhas
  15. ^ Revezamento 4x200m livre é tricampeão consecutivo com direito a recorde dos Jogos Pan-Americanos