João Gonçalves Filho

João Gonçalves Filho ( born December 7, 1934 Act; † June 27, 2010 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian swimmer, water polo player and has already participated at the Olympic Summer Games.

Biography

João Gonçalves Filho was a float for the first time in 1952 participants at the Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki. With the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 he again took part as a float.

In the Summer Olympics 1960, he played in the water polo team of Brazil. However, he left the team after the first round after defeats against the total German team as well as the Soviet Union and a draw against Argentina from.

At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 he was again a member of the water polo team and had to retire again after the first round after three defeats against the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Netherlands and the United States.

Recently he took part in the Olympic Summer Games 1968 in Mexico City in the water polo team as an active athlete participates. At the opening ceremony on 12 October 1968 he was flag bearer for Brazil in the participating nations invasion. In the water polo competitions his team came after five defeats against the United States, Cuba, the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary and the Soviet Union and a draw against Spain this time as the last of their group does not go beyond the first round.

In addition, was João Gonçalves Filho, chairman of the department of Judo EC Pinheiros was participants. During the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Judo as a technical supervisor of the team It scored 1992 Rogério Sampaio a gold medal in 1996 and Henrique Guimarães and Aurélio Miguel each bronze medals.

For his services he received in 2002 the Troféu Adhemar Ferreira da Silva of Prêmio Brasil Olímpico, an award from the National Olympic Committee ( Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro) for ex- athletes who will be awarded along with the price for the Sportsman of the Year.