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Full name | Carolina Ferraz Pereira de Moraes | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazil | ||||||||||||||
Born | São Paulo, Brazil | 5 April 1980||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Synchronized swimming | ||||||||||||||
Club | Ohio State Buckeyes | ||||||||||||||
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Updated on 18 November 2014 |
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