Kurt Leonel da Rocha Couto (born 14 May 1985 in

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) is an athlete from

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who specializes in 400 metres hurdles.

Life

At the age of 17, he moved to South Africa to train. His personal best in the 400 metres is 46.50 (

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, 2007) and 49.02 in the 400 metres hurdles (

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2012). He was flag bearer for his country at the Olympics three times (2004 Summer, 2008 Summer and 2012 Summer). He was also Mozambique's flag-bearer at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. At the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

, Couto retired after the first round, with a time of 49.74 seconds.

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