page_title: Etiene Medeiros
section_title: 2013–16
hierarchical_section_title: Etiene Medeiros / International career / 2013–16
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Этиене Медейрош на чемпионате мира в Казани
context_page_description: Etiene Pires de Medeiros is a Brazilian competitive swimmer who participates in backstroke and freestyle events. Widely regarded as the best Brazilian woman swimmer of all time, Medeiros was the first Brazilian to win an individual gold medal in a World Championship and Pan American Games, and the first to be a world record-holder in the modern era
context_section_description: In January 2013, she moved to São Paulo and start work with Coach Fernando Vanzella in club SESI-SP.
  In April 2013, she won the Maria Lenk Trophy in Brazil, with a time of 27.88 seconds in the 50-metre backstroke, best mark of her life, and one of the best times of the year in the proof.
  At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, she finished 21st in the 100-metre backstroke. In the 50-metre backstroke, qualified for the final with the fifth fastest time, 27.89 seconds, one hundredth of her personal best. In the final, she finished in 4th place, with a time of 27.83 seconds, her personal best, getting the best placement of a Brazilian woman in the World Championships. She also finished 12th in the 4×100-metre medley, along with Daynara de Paula, Larissa Oliveira and Beatriz Travalon.
  At the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Gold Coast, Queensland, she finished 5th in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay, along with Graciele Herrmann, Daynara de Paula and Alessandra Marchioro; 5th in the 4x100-metre medley relay, along with Graciele Herrmann, Ana Carla Carvalho and Daynara de Paula; 6th in the 50-metre freestyle; 7th in the 100-metre butterfly; and 11th in the 100-metre backstroke.
  On 3 September 2014, participating in the José Finkel Trophy (short course competition) in Guaratinguetá, Medeiros broke three South American records: in the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 24.15, in the 50-metre backstroke with a time of 26.41, and in the 100-metre backstroke with a time of 57.53.
  On 7 December 2014, participating in the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, Qatar, Medeiros broke the world record in the 50-metre backstroke with a time of 25.67. Medeiros was the first woman in Brazil to get an individual medal in World Championships, and the first to win a gold medal. Medeiros won 3 medals in the competition: the gold in the Women's 50 metre backstroke, another gold in the 4 × 50 metre mixed medley relay (along with Felipe França, Nicholas Santos and Larissa Oliveira), and a bronze medal in the 4 × 50 metre mixed freestyle relay (along with Cesar Cielo, João de Lucca and Larissa Oliveira). On 3 December, in the 4 × 50 metre mixed medley relay, Medeiros opened the final with a time of 25.83, and Brazil won the race beating the South American record with a time of 1:37.26, only 0.09 seconds from beating USA's world record (1:37.17). On 6 December, in the 4 × 50 metre mixed freestyle relay, Brazil broke the South American record with a time of 1:29.17, only 4 hundredths slower than Russia, which won the silver medal. In the 50-metre backstroke, Medeiros broke the Americas record in the semifinal with a time of 25.99, and the World record in the final with a time of 25.67. Medeiros also broke 2 times the South American record in the  100 metre backstroke, with a time of 57.36 at heats and 57.13 in the semifinals, finishing in 7th place in the final; and 2 times in Women's 4 × 50 metre medley relay, with a time of 1:47.20 at heats and 1:46.47 in the final, finishing in 5th place.
  At the Brazilian Open, in Rio de Janeiro, she broke the Americas record in the 50-metre backstroke,  with a time of 27.37. She also broke the South American record in the 50-metre freestyle, with a time of 24.74.
  At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Medeiros made history again, winning the first gold medal in the history of Brazilian women's swimming at Pan American Games. In the Women's 100 metre backstroke, she did a time of 59.61, a new Pan Am Games and South American record. An hour after the unprecedented gold, she won the silver medal in the Women's 50 metre freestyle, with a new South American record, 24.55. In this competition, she also helped the Brazilian team to win two bronze medals in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (this, breaking the South American record, with a time of 3:37.39) and 4 × 100 metre medley relay.
  At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, in the Women's 50 metre backstroke, Etiene broke another paradigm by becoming the first Brazilian woman to climb the podium 
caption: Medeiros in Kazan 2015
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