Samuel Menegon de Bona (born 1 October 1990 in
Porto Alegre
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) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in the open water marathon.
He trained at
Grêmio Náutico União, in Porto Alegre.
In April 2011, he won, for the first time, the
Travessia dos Fortes
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(the most important competition of the calendar of aquatic marathons in Brazil).
At the
2011 FINA World Championships in
Shanghai
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, de Bona placed 36th in the
5 km marathon, with a time of 1:01:20.9, 44th in the
10 km marathon, with a time of 2:02:17.2, and 16th in the
25 km marathon, with a time of 5:27:38.1.
At the
2011 Pan American Games
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in
Guadalajara
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, de Bona finished 12th in the 10 km Marathon Swimming.
At the
2013 World Aquatics Championships
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, he finished 6th in the Men's 5 km race. Later, in the team event, he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with
Allan do Carmo
Allan Lopes Mamédio do Carmo (born 3 August 1989) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon. He is considered one of the fastest professional open water swimmers in the world, finishing near the top of FINA World Cup races f ...
and
Poliana Okimoto
Poliana Okimoto (born March 8, 1983) is a Brazilian long-distance swimmer.
Career
She was at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, where she finished 18th in the 800-metre freestyle.
She won the Travessia dos Fortes in 20 ...
.
At the
2015 Pan American Games
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in
Toronto
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,
Canada
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, he abandoned the race of
Men's marathon 10 kilometres, after suffering blows to the nose and feeling sick.
At the
2015 FINA World Championships in
Kazan
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, he finished 14th in the
5 km marathon.
De Bona retired from sport, graduated in law and, in 2021, was invited and accepted to be a representative of the Brazilian Athletes Commission at the Anti-Doping Sports Court.
Ex-maratonista Samuel de Bona entra para o Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva Anti-Dopagem
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References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
Brazilian male freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Brazilian male long-distance swimmers
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
Pan American Games competitors for Brazil
20th-century Brazilian people
21st-century Brazilian people