Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos (born 3 January 1994) is a Brazilian
sprint canoe
A sprint canoe is a canoe used in International Canoe Federation canoe sprint. It is an open boat propelled by one, two or four paddlers from a kneeling position, using single-bladed paddles. The difficulty of balance can depend on how wide or nar ...
ist who has competed since 2005. He is the only Brazilian athlete to ever win three medals in a single edition of the
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
, and the third most decorated Brazilian athlete with four medals overall, including a gold medal.
He's been through adversity in his younger years. As a toddler, he poured boiling water on himself and spent a month in the hospital recovering. At the age of 5, he was kidnapped and offered up for adoption before being rescued by his mother, and five years later, he fell out of a tree while trying to catch a snake and lost a kidney.
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Career
Isaquias Queiroz is the first Brazilian sprint canoeist to win a medal at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). The World Cham ...
. His first medal was a bronze medal at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in C–1 1000 event, and his first gold medal was in the C-1 500 event in the same year. Up to the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Queiroz has already conquered 14 medals in World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
, seven gold medals.
2016 Olympic Games
During the 2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
, Queiroz won three Olympic medals at a single Games: two silver and one bronze. In the C–1 1000 metres event, he finished second, defeated only by Sebastian Brendel
Sebastian Brendel (; born 12 March 1988) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 2007. Brendel is the 2016 Olympic champion in the C-1 1000 metres and C-2 1000 metres events.
Career
He has won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint Wo ...
, who successfully defended his title. In the process, he became the first Brazilian sprint canoeist to win an Olympic medal. Two days later, he took the bronze medal in the C–1 200 metres event when Yuriy Cheban
Yuriy Volodymyrovych Cheban ( uk, Юрій Володимирович Чебан; born 5 July 1986 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a retired Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in C-1 200 metres.
Career
In 2003, despite b ...
and Valentin Demyanenko
Valentin Demyanenko (), born 23 October 1983 in Cherkasy, is a former Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani flatwater canoeist. He is a four times world champion, three times European champion and silver medalist of 2016 Summer Olympics in C-1 200 metres. ...
were faster than him. Together with Erlon Silva, they won the silver medal during the last day of canoe sprint competitions in the C–2 1000 metres category. Queiroz was the first Brazilian athlete in history to win three medals at a single edition of the Olympic Games and the first sprint canoe athlete from any nationality to do so in the history of the Olympics.
2021 Olympic Games
The 2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
had Queiroz partnered with Jacky Godmann as Erlon Silva had not recovered from a hip injury. In the C–2 1000 metres category, Queiroz and Godmann finished in fourth place. Queiroz won the gold in his remaining race, the C-1 1000 meters. He considered a consolidation of extensive training to get a victory that eluded him in Rio and became the first Brazilian Olympic champion in canoeing.[Brazilian canoe sprinter refuses to let tough childhood ruin Olympic dream ]
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1994 births
Brazilian male canoeists
Living people
Sportspeople from Bahia
Canoeists at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Canoeists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists of Brazil
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
21st-century Brazilian people