Luis Cardoso da Silva
Luís Carlos Cardoso in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Luís Carlos Cardoso da Silva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 1984 (age 40) Picos, Piauí, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paracanoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | KL1, VL2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Luís Carlos Cardoso da Silva (born 11 December 1984) is a Brazilian paracanoeist. He is a six-time world champion.[1]
Career
Silva won his fifth world championship in 2017 in the men's VL1 event, surpassing Fernando Fernandes de Pádua for the most by a Brazilian.[2]
Silva represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the men's KL1 event and finished in fourth place with a time 51.631.[3] He again represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the men's KL1 event and finished with a time of 48.031 and won a silver medal.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva". canoeicf.com. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva finds Rio redemption". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Canoe Sprint - CARDOSO da SILVA Luis Carlos". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
Date of Birth: 11 Dec 1984, Place of birth: PICOS
- ^ "Hungary's Peter Kiss seals first gold medal of the canoe sprint competition at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 3 September 2021. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
External links
- Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva at the International Canoe Federation
- Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (alternate link, alternate link 2)
- Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva at the International Paralympic Committee
- Luís Carlos Cardoso at the Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro (in Portuguese)