Eduardo Fischer

Eduardo Aquiles Fischer (born March 25, 1980 in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil) is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Brazil. He swam for Brazil at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.

Eduardo began swimming at the age of seven, but only started competing at 11. The motivation came from his older brother, who has practiced the sport. His first club was the Joinville Tênis Clube, where he stayed for ten years. In 1999, he went to Minas Tênis Clube, where he went to defend the CR Vasco da Gama until 2002, when he returned to Joinville.

The first major title came at the 1997 Brazilian Winter Championship, with the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke.

Participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, in the 100-metre breaststroke (31st place) and in the 4×100-metre medley (12th place).

In 2001, he already was the South American record holder at 50-metre breaststrokeand 100-metre breaststroke

At the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Moscow, obtained his best performance in an international tournament, getting the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke. In addition, he was also in the 100-metre breaststroke final, finishing in 6th place, and in the 4×100-metre medley final, finishing in 7th place. In this competition he beat twice the South American record at the short-course 50-metre breaststroke (27.51 seconds in qualifyingand 27.23 seconds in semifinal ), and twice the 100-metre breaststroke (59.64 seconds in qualifyingand 59.60 seconds in the final.) beyond the South American record in the 4×100-metre medley final (3:35.59). The South American record of the 50-metre breaststroke was only beaten in 2008 by Felipe França

Participating in the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, finished 21st place in the 50-metre breaststroke, 23rd in the 100-metre breaststrokeand 17th in the 4×100-metre medley.

At the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley, and bronze in the 100-metre breaststroke. In the 100-metre breaststroke, broke the South American record in Olympic pool, and still hit the index for the 2004 Summer Olympics, with a time of 1:01.88.

In 2003, broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke Olympic pool, with a time of 28.21 seconds. This mark was only broke in 2007 by Felipe Lima.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, went to the 100-metre breaststroke semifinals and finished 15th place. Fischer also swam the 200-metre breaststroke, finishing 24th place, and 4×100-metre medley, placing 15th. In the 100-metre breaststroke heats, he broke the South American record, with a time of 1:01.84. This mark was only hit in 2006 by Henrique Barbosa.

At the 2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Indianapolis, Fischer was close to winning a medal on three occasions: came in 4th place in the 50-metre breaststroke, 10 hundredths of bronze; 4th in the 100-metre breaststroke, and 4th in the 4×100-metre medley, which broke the South American record with a time of 3:33.02, along with Guilherme Guido, Kaio Almeida and César Cielo. This 4×100-metre medley area record just fell in 2008.

He was in the 2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Shanghai, where he went to the semifinals and was ranked 16th in the 50-metre breaststroke, was 22nd in the 100-metre breaststrokeand 9th in the 4×100-metre medley.

At the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Manchester, went to the 50-metre breaststroke semifinal, but was disqualified, and in 100-metre breaststroke, finished 17th place.

In May, 2009, still managed to beat the South American record in the short-course 100-metre breaststroke, with a time of 58.14 seconds, and the 50-metre breaststroke record, with a time of 26.73 seconds.

He was at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, where he was disqualified at the 50-metre breaststroke, and finished 18th in the 100-metre breaststroke.

At the end of 2011, the 31-year-old Eduardo Fischer announced his retirement from professional swimming. Graduated in Law, began to devote himself to his career in tax consultancy.