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Gustavo França Borges (born December 2, 1972) is a Brazilian former competitive
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. He swam for Brazil in the Summer Olympic Games in:
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and
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. Borges has won the second-most Olympic medals of any Brazilian, with fourone in 1992, two in 1996 and one in 2000behind sailors
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and
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. He also has the third-most
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gold medals of any Brazilian, with eightbehind swimmer
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and table tennis player
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. Borges was Brazil's flagbearer for the Closing Ceremony at the
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. Borges' first medal was silver, which he won in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1992 Olympics, which he received after a delay because his lane's
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was not working, and the judges had to review video recordings of the race to verify his place. Borges even overcame his idol,
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, to win the silver medal. Borges lives in
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, where he runs his own swimming school. He used to live in the United States in
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and in
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while he was still a student. He attended university at the
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in the mid-1990s, where he swam for the university's team, coached by
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and Marcel Wouda in the mid-1990s.


Beginning

Borges was born in
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, Brazil, but lived in
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throughout his childhood. In 1981, at the age of nine, he represented his school, coming third place in a race of 50-meter freestyle, his first podium finish. Before this, he had participated in swimming lessons at Associação Atlética Ituveravense. In 1984, in
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, Gustavo won his first medal in official competitions in a 100-meter breaststroke race. Borges was a runner-up of the São Paulo state, and runner-up of the Teto Olímpico at breaststroke, category 11/12 years. In 1987, Borges was 15 years old and swimming for the
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. He won the bronze medal in the 100-meter freestyle and silver in the 50-meter freestyle at the São Paulo Swimming Championship, Youth category A / B. In this year, Borges left Ituverava, moved to São Carlos and defended the São Carlos Clube. In 1988, at the São Paulo's Summer Youth Championship, he was a champion in the 50-meter freestyle and silver in the 100-meter freestyle. Borges' times were already good enough to participate in the Brazilian Championship, Júlio Delamare Trophy.


International career


1989: National prominence

In 1989, after joining the
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, Gustavo Borges began to gain national fame; when he was only 17 years old, he began beating the swimmer Cristiano Michelena, which held hegemony in the 100-meter and 200-meter in Brazil. He won the Brazil Trophy, the biggest tournament in the country, winning two gold medals in the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle.


1990: Steps to the outside

In 1990, Borges began to succeed in international competitions. In the South American championship held in
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, Argentina, he won gold in all three events he competed in; the 50-meter freestyle, the 4×100-meter freestyle and the 4×200-meter freestyle. In July, at the Jose Finkel Trophythe Brazilian short course championshiphe became the first Brazilian to make the 100-meter freestyle under 49 seconds with a time of 48.59 seconds, and was summoned to swim in the
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in
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, Australia. The same year, indicated by
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, Borges went to the United States to study at Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida.


1991: Pan Champion

At the
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, Borges finished in 12th in the 100-meter freestyle, breaking the South American record with a time of 50.77 seconds, and also in the 50-meter freestyle (23.15 seconds). He also finished 28th in the 200-meter freestyle. Borges won his first important international medals in the
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in
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. He won the 100-meter freestyle where he set a Pan Am Games record, and was silver medalist in 200-meter freestyle and bronze in the 50-meter freestyle, breaking the South American record. He also won gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle, and silver in the 4×200-meter freestyle.


1992: From Brazil, to the World

In 1992, Gustavo Borges broke the Brazilian Olympic medals fasting in swimming, which was set at the
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when
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won the silver in the 400-meter individual medley. Participating in his first Olympics the 1992 Summer Olympics in
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, Borges won the silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 49.43 seconds, a South American record, losing the gold to Alexander Popov. Borges was ranked sixth in the 4×100-meter freestyle, seventh in the 4×200-meter freestyle, 13th in the 50-meter freestyle and 22nd in the 200-meter freestyle.


1993: Champion, and World Record holder

In 1993, Borges broke three
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on the short course. The first was on July 2, at the Jose Finkel Trophy in Santos, Brazil. Borges's time was 47.94 seconds in the 100-metre freestyle, setting a record that lasted until January 1, 1994, when it broken by Alexander Popov. On July 7, the Brazilian team comprising
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,
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,
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and Gustavo Borges broke the world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle with a time of 3:13.97; the previous record time of 3:14.00.had been set by Sweden on March 19, 1989. On December 5, Brazil again beat the world record with the same team, with a time of 3:12.11. This mark was achieved in
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, which Borges won. He also won gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle, silver in the 100-meter freestyle and bronze in 4×200-meter freestylebreaking the South American record with a time of 7:09.38. He also finished fifth in the 4×100-meter medley, along with
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,
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and
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, and fifth in the 200-meter freestyle.


1994: Two bronzes

At the September
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in
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, Borges won bronze in the 100-meter freestyle and in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He also finished fourth in the 50-meter freestyle and 11th in the 200-meter freestyle.


1995: Two-times World and Pan champion

1995 was an important year for Borges. In March at the
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held in Argentina, he became two-time champion of the 100-meter freestyle and won gold in the 200-meter freestyle, both with Pan Am Games records. He won two more silver medals in the 4×100-meter and 4×200-meter freestyle events. In August, he went to the
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, where he won two silver medals in the 100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestyle. At the end of the year, at the 1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in
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, Borges became two-time 4×100-meter freestyle champion. He also won the 200-meter freestyle gold, breaking the South American record, with a time of 1:45.55, silver in the 100-meter freestyle and bronze in the 4×200-meter freestyle.HistoFINA, Volume
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's history. Volume III is about the World Short Course Swimming, part "a" has the statistics of the male part "b" of the female.


1996: Two Olympic medals

Borges participated in the
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in
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, and became the first Brazilian to win three Olympic medals, a feat achieved by
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in the same games. Borges won the silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:48.08, and bronze in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 49.02 seconds, both South American records. The 100-meter freestyle record was only beaten by
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in August 1998, and the 200-metre freestyle was only beaten by
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in 2008. Borges also finished fourth in the 4×100-meter freestyle and 12th in the 50-meter freestyle.


1997: The fourth World's gold

At the 1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), Borges won gold in the 200-meter freestyle and silver in the 100-meter freestyle. He also finished sixth in the 50-meter freestyle.


1998: The fourth World Record

At the
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in Perth, Australia, Borges finished fifth in the 100-meter freestyle, eighth in the 200-meter freestyle and sixth in the 4×100-meter freestyle. At the end of 1998, Borges was part of the Brazilian team which broke its third consecutive
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in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay on short course. On December 20, shortly after the end of the Jose Finkel Trophy,
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,
Carlos Jayme Carlos Alberto Borges Jayme (born 13 June 1980) is a former competition swimmer from Brazil. Jayme was a freestyle specialist and an Olympic bronze medalist. Early years Jayme was born in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. International career ...
,
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and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at
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with a time of 3:10.45, which would only be broken in 2000 by the Swedish team. At the same tournament, Borges also broke the South American record in the 100-meter freestyle in short course with a time of 47.14 seconds and the 200-meter freestyle record with a time of 1:44.40the last record-breaking swims of his career.


1999: The best Pan

In the
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in
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, Borges led Brazil to its best Pan American Games swimming result of all time. In the 4×100-meter medley, a team comprising Borges,
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,
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and
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won the medley relay for the first time in the Pan's history with a time of 3:40.27, breaking the Pan American Games and South American records and securing a place in the
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. He also won the gold in the 200-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestylebreaking the South American recordsilver in the 4×200-meter freestylealso breaking the South American recordbronze in the 100-meter freestyle, and finished fourth in the 50-meter freestyle. In this tournament, he joined
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and Claudio Kano as Brazilians who won the most gold medals in the event's history, with seven each. Borges also broke the national record for medals at the Games, with 15l. This year, Borges' first son, Luiz Gustavo, was born.


2000: Four medals in three Olympics

The
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in
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saw Borges' last Olympic podium finish, when along with Edvaldo Valério,
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and
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, he won the bronze in the 4×100-meter freestyle with a time of 3:17.40. Australia broke the world record and took the gold with a time of 3:13.67. Borges also participated in the 100-meter freestyle, finishing in 16th position. During the Games, Gustavo was chosen by
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to be part of a team of 12 athletes who would form a committee from 2000 to 2005. He was the only South American representative on the list. Brazil became one of the countries with a large representation within the Federation. Also in 2000, Borges started preparing to end his career and become an entrepreneur.


2002: The last world medal

At the
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, Borges won a silver in the 200-meter freestyle; it was his last FINA world medal. He also finished fourth in the 4×200-meter freestyle, with a time of 0.4s, which won him the bronze medal. Borges was in fifth place in the 4×100-meter freestyle, seventh place in the 100-metre freestyle and seventh place in the 4×100-metre medley In this tournament, Borges brokefor the last time in his careerthe South American record in short course in the 4×200-meter freestyle, with a time of 7:09.14, and in the 4×100-meter medley with 3:35.59.


2003: Last Pan

In July, at the
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in
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, Borges was in the 4×100-meter freestyle team, which finished in 12th place' He was also in teams for the 4×200-meter freestylewhich finished ninth and the 4×100-meter medleywhich finished 17th. In August 2003 at the age of 30, Borges took part in the
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his fourth and final Pan American Gameswhich were held in
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. He established himself as the greatest Brazilian medalist in the history of the tournament, having won 19 podium finishes, eight gold medals, eight silver and three bronze. In these Games, Borges helped Brazil's swimming team to win 21 medalsa record. Borges won gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle, silver in 4×200-meter freestyle, and bronze in the 100-meter freestyle. Also in 2003, Borges launches a book titled "Lessons from the water". He also became an entrepreneur, managing the Gustavo Borges Natação e Fitness in Curitiba.


2004: Retirement from professional swimming

At the age of 31, Borges retired from swimming after competing in the
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in
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. His only event was the qualifying for the 4×100-meter freestyle, in which Brazil finished in 12th place and did not reach the finals. Having previously missed four
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due to swimming contests the next day, and never witnessing any Brazilian medal other than Scherer in 1996, Borges decided to watch the rest of the Olympics, and was Brazil's flag bearer at the closing ceremony.


Hall of Fame

In 2012, Borges joined the
International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and serving as the central point for the stu ...
, becoming the second Brazilian to be honored by the institution – the first was
Maria Lenk Maria Emma Hulga Lenk (January 15, 1915 – April 16, 2007) was a Brazilian swimmer, the first South American woman to participate in the Summer Olympic Games, in 1932 (Los Angeles). Biography Born in São Paulo, Maria Lenk was the first Br ...
in 1988.


Records

Gustavo Borges is the former holder of the following records:


See also

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List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming. Men's events 50 metre freestyle 100 metre freestyle 200 metre freestyle 400 metre freestyle 800 metre freestyle 1500 metre freestyle 100 metre backstroke 200 metre ...
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List of University of Michigan alumni A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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Pan American Games records in swimming Listed below is a complete list of the Pan American Games records in swimming, ratified by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). Men Women Mixed relay See also *Swimming at the Pan American Ga ...
* South American records in swimming *
World record progression 100 metres freestyle The first world record in the 100 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1905. In the short course (25 metres) swimming events, the world's governing bod ...


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