César Cielo
Cielo Filho at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
César Augusto Cielo Filho ( born January 10, 1987 in Santa Bárbara d' Oeste) is a specialized short-haul Brazilian freestyle swimmer. In 2008 he won at the Olympic Games in Beijing, gold and bronze, and in the following years, three world championship titles.
Career
Cesar Cielo began his career at the float Esporte Clube Barbarense in his hometown. In 2003 he moved to São Paulo, where he had accepted for the 1899 founded as SC Germânia EC Pinheiros. Since 2004 he is also part of the Brazilian swimming team. In the Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis in 2004 he won the 4x100m freestyle relay silver and also finished fourth with the 4x100m medley relay and sixth over 100 m freestyle.
Since 2006 he lives in Auburn, Alabama, and studied economics at Auburn University for their swim team, the Tigers, he also started, although it remained connected to the EC Pinheiros. He graduated in International Business since then. In the same year he joined Shanghai again at the Short Course World Championships. Three times he went to the start - with the 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays and the 100m freestyle - and finished fifth three times. In the same year Cielo Filho launched at the Pan Pacific Games in Victoria. Best result was sixth place there over 50 m freestyle. About 100 m and with the two 4x100m relay teams, he finished seventh.
2007 went Cesar Cielo Filho in Melbourne's first participation at a long-track World Cup. About 50 m butterfly and the 4x100m medley relay, he retired from already in the heats, with the 4x100m medley relay, he finished in the final eighth and last place. Things went better for the Brazilians over 50 m freestyle, where he finished sixth, and over 100 m freestyle, where he narrowly missed a medal in fourth. Three gold medals won Cielo Filho at the Pan - American Games 2007: over 50 m and 100 m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle relay.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Cielo Filho went on three routes to the start. First, he resigned from the 4x100m freestyle relay in the flow. About 100 m freestyle, he reached the finals and won in a thrilling finish, together with the simultaneous Jason Lezak the bronze medal. This success could surpass two days later on the 50 - m freestyle distance nor the Brazilians when he won in 21.30 seconds and a new Olympic record aufstellte. About this and double the distance since the Beijing Games, he also holds the South American record, about 100 m on the short track.
Six times Cielo Filho won the National Collegiate Athletic Association titles. In 2007 he was the NCAA Swimmer of the Year. In 2010 he joined the CR Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, although it remained essentially trained in Auburn.
In March 2011, he was tested positive along with three other compatriots on furosemide. From the Brazilian Association CBDA he was then merely been reprimanded, but not locked. In July 2011, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Cielo Filho nor should start in the same month at the World Swimming Championships 2011 in Shanghai. There he won the title over 50 -meter freestyle ( 21.52 s ) and 50 meter butterfly ( 23.10 seconds). At the Olympic Summer Games in London a year later, he could not defend his Olympic victory over 50 -meter freestyle and was behind gold medalist Florent Manaudou from France and the American Cullen Jones third. About the 100 - meter freestyle, he finished sixth.