Bruno Lins Tenório de Barros (born 7 January 1987) is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the

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Biography

Barros was born in

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and resides in São Bernardo. He represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. He competed in the 4x100 metres relay together with José Carlos Moreira,

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and Sandro Viana. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind

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and the

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. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the

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n, Trinidad and Japanese teams. He also took part in the

individual, finishing fifth with a time of 21.15 seconds in his first round heat, which was not enough to qualify for the second round. His personal best time is 20.47, achieved in February 2008 in

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. He also has 10.22 seconds in the

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, achieved in March 2008 in São Paulo. In 2009, he was suspended by the IAAF for 2 years for a doping offence involving the drug rh-EPO. He represented Brazil in the 1st Lusophone Games that took place in

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in 2006; in the 2nd Lusophony Games in

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; and also in the

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, again in both the 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay. Barros would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion in 2017 of the Jamaican team for

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's failed anti-doping test.

Personal bests

*100 m: 10.16 (wind: +1.8 m/s) –

, 21 March 2009 *200 m: 20.16 (wind: +1.1 m/s) –

, 7 August 2011

International competitions

¹Did not start in the final

References

External links

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