Miguel Pires

Olympic swimmer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroOlympic swimmer
PlacesPortugal
isAthlete Swimmer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth16 July 1984, Faro, Faro, Portugal
Age40 years
Star signCancer
The details

Biography

Miguel Jerónimo Bento Martins Pires (born July 16, 1984) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and a member of Louletano Desporte Clube, under head coaches Luis Cardoso and Julio Borja.

Pires qualified for the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, as a member of the Portuguese team, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Teaming with Luís Monteiro, Adriano Niz, and João Araújo in heat one, Pires swam an anchor leg in a split of 1:50.71, but the Portuguese team finished the race in seventh place and fourteenth overall with a national record of 7:27.99.

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