Miguel Machado
.jpg) Miguel Machado at the Masters European Swimming Championships - London 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Miguel Alexandre Cabral Machado | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 1975 Porto, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | FC Porto Clube Naval do Funchal City of Coventry Swim Team Kenilworth Masters Swimming Club Real Clube Fluvial Portuense CLIP Teams | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Miguel Alexandre Cabral Machado (born 8 May 1975) is a former competition swimmer from Portugal, who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[5]
Machado was born in Porto, Portugal. He attended the Faculty of Engineering at Porto University and the Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, where he swam for the City of Glasgow Swim Team (COGST).
Machado represented the Clube Fluvial Portuense at a younger age, but made his debut on the Portuguese National Team as a swimmer from FC Porto.
From 1996 to 2007 Machado also represented other Portuguese Clubs such as CDUP - Centro Desportivo e Universitário do Porto and the Clube Naval do Funchal from the Atlantic Madeira Island.
Miguel was the 100m freestyle (short course) Portuguese national record holder between 1995 and 1996, with the mark of 51.02s.
He later played water polo at the Clube Naval Povoense, a club located at Povoa de Varzim, a small town located a few miles north of Porto.
He retired from competitive swimming in 2008, but in 2015, following his move to the United Kingdom, Miguel has returned to the pools and joined the City of Coventry Swim Team as a Masters swimmer.
Since then, he has participated in several national and international Masters Swimming events.
In 2016, at the LEN European Masters Championships in London, Miguel classified 4th place[6] on the 100 m freestyle.
In 2017 in Budapest, at the XVII FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS, Miguel swam the 50m, and also the 100m freestyle, where he classified 9th overall,[7] setting a new Portuguese record for the distance.[8]
In October 2019, at the Swim England Masters National Championships at Pond's Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, Miguel and his teammates Matt Wardle, James Wardle and Neal Smith (Kenilworth Masters SC) were rewarded with a British record[9] in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, bringing the mark down from 3:34.41 to 3:33.29.
In the summer of 2023, Miguel competed at the World Aquatics Masters Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Swimming in the 45-49 age group, he classified 4th (200 freestyle),5th(100 freestyle and 200 Individual Medley) and 6th (50 backstroke)[10]
Later that year Miguel competed at the European Masters Short Course Swimming Championships. In his best-ever international performance, Miguel was bronze on both the 100m individual medley and on the 50m backstroke. He won gold on the 50m and 100m freestyle, becoming 2x time European Champion for his age group and setting up 2 new Portuguese records.[11][12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ EuropeanAquatics 2023 EMSCSC results
- ^ EuropeanAquatics 2023 EMSCSC results
- ^ EuropeanAquatics 2023 EMSCSC results
- ^ EuropeanAquatics 2023 EMSCSC results
- ^ Miguel Machado at Sports Reference
- ^ LEN 2015 European Masters Championships results
- ^ XVII 2017 FINA WORLD MASTERS results
- ^ Portuguese Records (updated 25/08/2020)
- ^ KENILWORTH MASTERS CLAIM 3 BRITISH RECORDS AT THE NATIONALS_October2019
- ^ WorldAquatics 2023 Fukuoka results
- ^ Noticia ANNP
- ^ EuropeanAquatics 2023 EMSCSC results
- ^ Records Masters Portugal 25m