Susana Barroso
Appearance
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Full name | Susana Cristina Carvalheira Barroso | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lisbon, Portugal | 10 June 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Susana Cristina Carvalheira Barroso (born 10 June 1974) is a retired Portuguese Paralympic swimmer and boccia player who competes in international level events. She was the first Portuguese swimmers to win a medal in swimming at the Summer Paralympics and was the most medalled female Paralympian for her country.[1][2]
Barroso had a fourteen-year swimming career starting in 1991 where she won a bronze medal in a European swimming championships for disabled swimmers and retired from swimming in 2005. She played boccia two years after her retirement and returned to the Paralympics eight years later at the 2012 Summer Paralympics when she competed in boccia where she did not medal in her event.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Susana Barroso - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Susana Barroso, Paralympic athlete most medaled ever, leaves competition (in Portuguese)". RTP Sport. 11 December 2012.
- ^ "Susana Barroso will represent Portugal at the London 2012 Paralympics". Associaco Salvador. 11 December 2012.
Categories:
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Swimmers from Lisbon
- Paralympic swimmers for Portugal
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Portuguese female freestyle swimmers
- Paralympic boccia players for Portugal
- Portuguese female backstroke swimmers
- S3-classified para swimmers