page_title: Sport in Brazil
section_title: Swimming
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Brazil / Swimming
caption_attribution_description: English: Brazilian swimmer César Cielo Filho at the 2009 US World Championnships Trials (Indianapolis) Français&#160;: Le nageur brésilien César Cielo Filho lors des Sélections américaines pour les Championnats du monde 2009 (Indianpolis)
context_page_description: Sports in Brazil are those that are widely practiced and popular in the country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance. Brazilians are heavily involved in sports. Association football is the most popular sport in Brazil. Other than football, sports like volleyball, mixed martial arts, basketball, tennis, and motor sports, especially Formula One, enjoy high levels of popularity.
context_section_description: Swimming is very popular in Brazil. Being a sport usually recommended for children, and suitable for a country with a tropical climate like Brazil, swimming has grown and started to produce important sporting icons. Although the country had some success with swimmers like Piedade Coutinho, Tetsuo Okamoto, Manuel dos Santos and José Fiolo, the sport started to become more popular with Djan Madruga, Rômulo Arantes and Ricardo Prado in 1970s and 1980s; going through Gustavo Borges and Fernando Scherer in the 1990s, Brazilian swimming today manufactures great talents in succession.
  Today Brazil has one of the best swimmers in the world, César Cielo, who is an Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder; and swimmers like Thiago Pereira, Felipe França and Kaio de Almeida who managed to beat world records in their events, as well as medalists in World Championships, such as Bruno Fratus, Nicholas Santos, João Gomes Júnior and Felipe Lima. Even female swimming has been developing and creating athletes like Etiene Medeiros. With the multiplication of the emergence of talents, swimming has been standing out and conquering its space.
caption: Cielo at the 2009 US National Championships in Indianapolis
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