Andre Brasil Esteves (born May 23, 1984) is a Paralympic swimmer from

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. He had

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as a child. He competes in the S10 classification. He won gold for

Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Brazil sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China The country debuted in the Games in 1972 and 2008 was its 10th participation. Brazil also sent the largest number of athletes to the Paralympics in its history, ...

. He also broke S10 world records in three events, and a Paralympic record in a fourth. He is unbeaten in the men's 400 m freestyle S10 event. He then went on to win and break a world record at the

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in 50 m freestyle S10, with a time of 23.16 seconds, beating his old record of 23.44 seconds. , he is S10 world record holder in

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50, 100 and 200 metre freestyle, 50 and 100 metre butterfly and 50 metre backstroke events.

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