event birth_place weight height nationality pb medaltemplates sport birth_date article_title name
sprints duque de caxias , rio de janeiro kg 70 1.72 bra brazilian '' são paulo 2011 -rrb- '' ' 200 m : '' ' ' 20.41 -lrb- rio de janeiro 2010 -rrb- 100 m : '' ' 10.18 -lrb- men 's athletics running 30 january 1986 nilson andré
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nilson andré

nilson de oliveira andré -lrb- born 30 january 1986 -rrb- is a brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres events .
he is the reigning south american champion in the 100 m and the 4 × 100 metres relay .
he also won medals at the military world games in 2011 .
born in duque de caxias , rio de janeiro , he began sprinting as a schoolchild .
his first international competitions came in 2003 and he won the a gold medal at the south american junior athletics championships with the 4 × 100 metres relay team .
he was a finalist in both the 100 m and 200 m at the 2003 world youth championships in athletics .
he won a second relay gold at the 2005 south american junior championships .
andré ran a personal best of 10.47 seconds at the brazilian championships in 2006 , but failed to match this at the 2006 south american games , being eliminated in the heats .
he further improved his 100 m and 200 m times in 2007 -lrb- running 10.35 and 20.77 seconds respectively -rrb- , and also won his first senior medal at the 2007 south american championships in athletics , where he anchored home to victory the brazilian 4 × 100 metres relay team of sandro viana , vicente de lima and basílio de morães .
the following year , he took advantage of the altitude of the julia iriarte meeting in cochabamba to run personal bests of 10.22 and 20.67 seconds .
he won the 100 m title at the 2006 south american u23 athletics championships and also won the 200 m bronze medal .
the highlights of his 2009 season came at the world military track and field championships , where he was a 200 m semi-finalist and won gold in the relay .
the grande premio brasil caixa de atletismo in 2010 saw andré produce personal bests of 10.21 and 20.61 seconds in the sprints , then at the 2010 ibero-american championships he won a 100/200 m sprint double .
at the troféu brasil de atletismo national event , was runner-up over 100 m and third in the 200 m. although he did not improve upon his placings at the national event in 2011 , he had a career breakthrough : he won his first individual medal at continental level at the 2011 south american championships in athletics , taking the 100 m gold medal , then won a second gold with the brazilian relay team .
he also reached the podium twice at the 2011 military world games , winning the bronze in the 100 m and gold in the relay for the host nation in rio de janeiro .
