Manuella Duarte Lyrio (born July 27, 1989) is a Brazilian competitive

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International career

2005–08

On September 9, 2005, at 16 years old, Lyrio broke the short-course South American record in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, with a time of 8:01.78, along with Paula Baracho,

Tatiana Lemos Tatiana Martine Lemos de Lima Barbosa (born December 10, 1978) is a freestyle swimming, freestyle swimmer from Brazil. In her career, she represented Minas Brasília, COPM de Brasília, Iate Clube de Brasília, AABB de Brasília, Clube do Exérc ...

and

Joanna Maranhão Joanna de Albuquerque Maranhão Bezerra de Melo, or Joanna Maranhão (born April 29, 1987 in Recife, Pernambuco) is a swimmer from Brazil, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2004. She was a f ...

. At the

2007 Pan American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Com ...

, in

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, Manuella got the bronze in the 4x200-metre freestyle, along with

Monique Ferreira Monique Andrade Ferreira (born 29 June 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. A member of Santos. International career She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and 2008 Summer Olymp ...

and Paula Baracho.

2009–12

She was at the

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, where she finished 6th in the 4x200-metre freestyle, 23rd in the 400-metre freestyle, 28th in the 200-metre freestyle and 49th in the 100-metre freestyle. Integrating Brazil national delegation that disputed the

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, Lyrio won the silver medal in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay., and ranked 10th in the 400-metre freestyle. On March 14, 2012, she broke the 400-metre freestyle Brazilian record, with a time of 4:12.14. On October 14, 2012, Manuella broke the 400-metre freestyle Brazilian record at short course, with a time of 4:06.57.

2003–16

At the

2013 World Aquatics Championships The 15th FINA World Championships ( ca, Campionat Mundial de Natació de 2013, es, Campeonato Mundial de Natación de 2013) were held from 20 July to 4 August in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, she finished 22nd in the 200m freestyle, breaking the South American record, with a time of 1:59.52. She also finished 10th in the 4 × 200 m freestyle, along with Jéssica Cavalheiro, Carolina Bilich and

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. At the

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, Lyrio finished 23rd in the Women's 400 metre freestyle. She also swam the heats of the Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay. In April 2015, participating in the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro, she broke the South American record in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay with a time of 8:03.22, along with

and

Gabrielle Roncatto Gabrielle Gonçalves Roncatto (born 19 July 1998 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer. She finished 5th in the 400m freestyle at the 2024 Doha World Championships. International career 2014–16 On 3 September 2014, participating in the Jos� ...

. At the

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, Canada, Lyrio began earning a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, by participating at heats. She also finished 9th in the 200 metre butterfly. On the second day, Lyrio won an unprecedented bronze medal in the 200 metre freestyle, breaking the South American record, with a time of 1:58.03. On the third day, she won the silver medal in the

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, breaking the South American record, with a time of 7:56.36, along with

, Jéssica Cavalheiro and

. On the fourth day, she finished 4th in the 400 metre freestyle, breaking the Brazilian record, with a time of 4:10.92. At the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host ...

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, Lyrio finished 10th in the

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, along with Jéssica Cavalheiro,

and

; 15th in the

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.; and 16th in the Women's 400 metre freestyle, breaking again the Brazilian record, with a time of 4:10.57 In December 2015, at the Open tournament held in

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, Lyrio broke the Brazilian record in the 400-metre freestyle, with a time of 4:09.96. In April 2016, at the Maria Lenk Trophy tournament held in

, Lyrio broke the Brazilian record in the 400-metre freestyle, with a time of 4:09.48.

2016 Summer Olympics

At the

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, she broke the South American record in the

heats, with a time of 1:57.28. She finished 12th in the semifinals. Nevertheless, she entered in the Brazil's swimming history, because never a Brazilian woman had managed to get in a semifinal of this proof. In the

, she broke the South American record, with a time of 7:55.68, along with Jéssica Cavalheiro,

and

, finishing 11th. She also competed in the

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, finishing 11th.

2016–20

On September 12, 2016, at the

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(short course competition), she broke twice the South American record in the 200-metre freestyle, with a time of 1:55.90 at heats and 1:54.76 in the final. She also broke the South American record in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, with a time of 7:52.71, along with

, Aline Rodrigues and

. At the

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, she went to the

final, finishing 8th. She also finished 40th in the Women's 100 metre freestyle. At the

2017 World Aquatics Championships The 17th FINA World Championships ( hu, 2017-es úszó-világbajnokság) were held in Budapest, Hungary from 14 to 30 July 2017.

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, she finished 22nd in the Women's 100 metre freestyle and 21st in the

. At the

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, she finished 9th in the

and 21st in the Women's 100 metre freestyle. At the

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held in

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, Lyrio won four medals in the Brazilian relays: two of them, swimming in the finals - silver in the

and bronze in the

, and two by participating at heats: gold in the

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, and bronze in the Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay. She also finished 6th in the

References

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