Maciel Sousa Santos (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian
boccia
Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes ...
player.
Santos started playing boccia at the age of eleven and was already competing internationally at fourteen. He trains daily for six to eight hours. At the
2012 Summer Paralympics
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in
London
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, he won the gold medal by defeating
Yan Zhiqiang in the
Individual BC2 event. At the
2020 Summer Paralympics in
Tokyo
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, he won the bronze medal in the
same event.
References
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ceará
Paralympic medalists in boccia
Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic boccia players for Brazil
Paralympic gold medalists for Brazil
Paralympic bronze medalists for Brazil
21st-century Brazilian people
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