Adriano Niz

Adriano Niz
Personal information
Full name Adriano Manuel Santos Niz
National team  Portugal
Born (1986-03-05) 5 March 1986
Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Clube Fluvial Vilacondense
Coach António Paulo Vasconcelos

Adriano Manuel Santos Niz (born March 5, 1986) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and currently holds a Portuguese record in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands (3:23.06).[2] Niz also trains for Clube Fluvial Vilacondense, under head coach António Paulo Vasconcelos.[3]

Niz qualified for the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, as a member of the Portuguese team, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4][5] Teaming with Luís Monteiro, João Araújo, and Miguel Pires in heat one, Niz swam a second leg in a split of 1:52.35, but the Portuguese team settled only for seventh place and fourteenth overall with a national record of 7:27.99.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Adriano Niz". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Adriano Niz na estafeta recordista" [Adriano Niz is a relay record-holder] (in Portuguese). Associacion de Nataçáo do Norte de Portugal (ANNP). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "O sonho já é realidade" [The dream is now a reality] (in Portuguese). Clube Fluvial Vilacondense. 21 July 2004. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Natação: Adriano Niz realiza sonho dos JO na estafeta" [Swimming: Adriano Niz realizes an Olympic dream in the relay] (in Portuguese). Jornal Record Portugal. 21 July 2004. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Whitten, Phillip (17 August 2004). "Men's 800 Free Relay, Day 4: US, Australia Qualify 1–2". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2013.

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