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Born | São Miguel do Guamá, Pará, Brazil | 5 April 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Optic nerve atrophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lucilene da Silva Sousa (born 5 April 2000) is a Brazilian para swimmer. [1]
Sousa is from São Miguel do Guamá, Pará. [1] She was born with optic nerve atrophy, which resulted in low vision. [1] Before swimming, she practiced goalball under the influence of her older brother, Josemárcio, and won the gold medal at the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games, held in São Paulo. [1]
At the 2019 Parapan American Games, Sousa won the silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle class S13, [2] the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter freestyle. [3]
Sousa's debut at the World Para Swimming Championships took place in the 2019 edition, held in London, United Kingdom, [4] where she won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, 49 points, as part of a team also formed by Wendell Belarmino, Carolina Santiago and Carlos Farrenberg. They finished with a time of 3:53:17 and set a new record for the Americas. [5] Sousa herself also finished in 6th place in the 100m freestyle (S12) and 8th place in the 50m freestyle (S12). [6]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, held between August and September 2021 in Tokyo, Sousa won the silver medal in the mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 49 points, having formed a team with Wendell Belarmino, Douglas Matera and Carolina Santiago. They recorded a time of 3:54:95. [7]
In June 2022, at the World Para Swimming Championships held in Madeira, Portugal, Sousa won bronze in the 50-metre freestyle class S12. [8] She secured gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay 49 points forming a team with Carolina Santiago, José Luíz Perdigão and Guilherme Batista, where they clocked a time of 4:33:30, just 22 hundredths ahead of the second-placed team, Spain. [9] In the 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle relay 49 points, she formed a team with Matheus Rheine, Douglas Matera and Carolina Santiago, and was, again, a gold medalist with a time of 3:54:26. [10] In addition, she finished 4th in the 100-metre butterfly, 5th in the 100-metre freestyle and 8th in the 100-metre butterfly S13. [11] In the 2023 edition of the world championship, held in Manchester, United Kingdom, Sousa won the bronze medal in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 1:01:54. [12] She competed in the 4×100 freestyle mixed relay 49 points alongside Carolina Santiago, Matheus Rheine and Douglas Matera. They recorded a time of 3:56:03 and won gold. [13]