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Full name | Bruno Bethlem de Amorim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 22 October 1975|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class(es) | 470, Snipe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruno Bethlem de Amorim (born 22 October 1975 in Rio de Janeiro), also known as "Bebum", is a Brazilian sailor gold medallist in the Pan American Games, the South American Games, and the Snipe World Championships. [1]
He started sailing Optimist at the age of eleven, [2] moving to Europe, 470 and Snipe later on his career. His biggest accomplishments have come in the Snipe class, where he has won the Brazilian National Championship ten times (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2024), [3] twice the South American Championship (2000 and 2018), the Pan American Games (2003) and the South American Games (2006), and twice the World Championships (2009 and 2013), where he also won the bronze medal in 2011.
He and Henrique Haddad placed 23rd in the men's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [4] [5] He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [6]
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