Thiago Pereira

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Medal record
Thiago Pereira
Men's Swimming
Competitor for  Brazil
World Championsips (SC)
Gold	2004 Indianapolis	200 m Medley
Silver	2004 Indianapolis	4x100 m Freestyle
Bronze	2004 Indianapolis	100 m Medley
Bronze	2004 Indianapolis	4x200 m Freestyle
Pan American Games
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	200 m backstroke
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	200 m breaststroke
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	200 m medley
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	400 m medley
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	4x100 m freestyle
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	4x200 m freestyle
Silver	2007 Rio de Janeiro	4x100 m medley
Silver	2003 Santo Domingo	200 m medley
Bronze	2007 Rio de Janeiro	100 m backstroke
Bronze	2003 Santo Domingo	400 m medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Bronze	2006 Victoria	400 m Medley

Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira (born January 26, 1986 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro) is a swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, just behind George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago. Pereira holds the world record in the 200 m individual medley, which he set at the 6th stop of the 2007 FINA World Cup.

Pereira's biggest success so far came one year earlier, when he won the world title in the same event at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships. After that, Pereira won six gold medals in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, breaking the record of five gold medals in one Pan American Games edition held by Mark Spitz. A resident of Belo Horizonte he represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he reached the final of the 200 m medley, and finished in fifth place.

[edit] See also

• Pan American Games records in swimming
• South American records in swimming

[edit] References

• Folha Online
• UOL Profile