Samuel de Bona

Samuel de Bona
Personal information
Full name Samuel Menegon de Bona
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1990-10-01) 1 October 1990
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Samuel Menegon de Bona (born October 1, 1990 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.[1]

On April 2011, he won, for the first time, the Travessia dos Fortes (the most important competition of the calendar of aquatic marathons in Brazil).[2]

At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, de Bona placed 36th in the 5 km marathon, with a time of 1:01:20.9,[3] 44th in the 10 km marathon, with a time of 2:02:17.2,[4] and 16th in the 25 km marathon, with a time of 5:27:38.1.[5]

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, de Bona finished 12th in the 10 km Marathon Swimming.[6]

At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, he finished 6th in the Men's 5 km race.[7] Later, in the team event, he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with Allan do Carmo and Poliana Okimoto.[8][9]

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, he abandoned the race of Men's marathon 10 kilometres, after suffering blows to the nose and feeling sick.[10]

At the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, he finished 14th in the 5 km marathon.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "R7 Profile". R7 (in Portuguese). 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "On the hand beat, Samuel de Bona is the champion of Travessia dos Fortes". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). April 3, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Results of the 5km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Results of the 10km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Results of the 25km marathon at 2011 Shanghai". OmegaTiming. July 23, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Heat disrupts and Brazilians get off the podium in the marathon swimming". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). October 22, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Results of the 5km marathon at 2013 Barcelona". OmegaTiming. July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Tireless, Poliana help male duo and invoice bronze by teams". SPORTV (in Portuguese). July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Results of the Marathon Swimming Teams at 2013 Barcelona". OmegaTiming. July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Blows to the face removes Brazilian of the dispute in the aquatic marathon in the Pan". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). July 12, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Results of the 5 km marathon at 2015 Kazan". OmegaTiming. July 25, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
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