Jhennifer Alves da Conceição (born June 13, 1997, in

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) is a Brazilian swimmer. Finalist at the 2022 World Championships in the 50m breaststroke.

International career

2015–16

At the 2015 South American Swimming Youth Championships, held in

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, Conceição won two gold medals in the 100-metre breaststroke, and in the 4x50-metre medley relay. At the

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, Canada, Conceição won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay, along with

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and

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. She also went to the 100 metre breaststroke, where she classified 5th in the heats, but was disqualified in the final. At the

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, she finished 14th in the

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, 21st in the

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, and 36th in the Women's 100 metre breaststroke.

2016 Summer Olympics

At the

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, she competed in the

, finishing 13th.

2017-20

On September 15, 2016, at the

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(short course competition), she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke, with a time of 30.31. On 4 May 2017, at the

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tournament held in

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, she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke, with a time of 30.63. On 7 December 2017, at the Open tournament held in

, she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke, with a time of 30.51. In August 2018, at the

(short course competition), she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke, with a time of 30.00, and in the 100-metre breaststroke, with a time of 1:05.69 . In April 2019, at the 2019 Brazil Trophy, she broke two times the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke: 30.50 at heats, and 30.47 in the final. On 21 June 2019, at the 2019 Sette Coli in Rome, she broke the South American record in the 100-metre breaststroke, with a time of 1:07.64. At the

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held in

, she won a gold medal in the

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(by participating at heats), and a bronze medal in the

. She also finished 5th in the Women's 100 metre breaststroke. On 16 November 2020, at the

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, she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke (short course), with a time of 29.91.

2021-24

On 26 June 2021, at the Sette Colli Trophy, she broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke, with a time of 30.40. At the

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, she finished 9th in the

. At the

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held in Budapest, she qualified for the

final with a time of 30.28, a new South American record. She finished 8th in the final, being the first time that a South American woman reached the final of this event in World Championships. On 15 September 2022, at the

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