Isaquias Queiroz

Isaquias Queiroz

Queiroz in 2016
Personal information
Born	3 January 1994 (age 22) Ubaitaba, Brazil[1]
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Canoe sprint
Club	Paulistano
Coached by	Jesús Morlán[2]
Medal record Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-1 1000 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-2 1000 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-1 200 m World Championships 2013 Duisburg C–1 500 m 2014 Moscow C–1 500 m 2015 Milan C–2 1000 m 2013 Duisburg C–1 1000 m 2014 Moscow C–2 200 m 2015 Milan C–1 200 m Pan American Games 2015 Toronto C-1 200 m 2015 Toronto C-1 1000 m 2015 Toronto C-2 1000 m

Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos (born 3 January 1994) is a Brazilian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005.^[3] He is the only Brazilian athlete to ever win three medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games.

He's been through adversity in his younger years. As a toddler he poured boiling water on himself and spent a month in hospital recovering, at the age of 5 he was kidnapped and offered up for adoption before being rescued by his mother, and 5 years later he fell out of a tree while trying to catch a snake and lost a kidney. In his teenage years he began showing an interest in homebaking, where whilst grating a coconut to garnish a traditional brazilian Quindim he severed the top third off his left ring finger ^[4]

Career

Isaquias Queiroz is the first Brazilian sprint canoeist to win a medal at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships at C–1 1000 m.^[5] Queiroz is two-time world champion at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg (2013) and Moscow (2014) at C-1 500 meters.^[1] He also is world champion at C-2 1000 meters in Milan (2015) along with Erlon Silva.^[6]

2016 Olympic Games

During the 2016 Summer Olympics, Queiroz managed to win three Olympic medals at a single Games: two silver and one bronze. In the C-1 1000 metres event he finished second, defeated only by Sebastian Brendel, who successfully defended his title. In the process, he became the first Brazilian sprint canoeist to win an Olympic medal. Two days later he took the bronze medal in the C-1 200 metres event, when Yuriy Cheban and Valentin Demyanenko were faster than him. Together with Erlon Silva they won the silver medal during the last day of canoe sprint competitions, in the C-2 1000 metres category. Queiroz was the first Brazilian athlete in history to win three medals at a single edition of the Olympic Games, and the first sprint canoe athlete from any nationality to do so in the history of the Olympics.^[7]

References

1. ISAQUIAS QUEIROZ DOS SANTOS at the ICF official site
2. Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos. cob.org.br
3. Isaquias Queiroz at the Rio 2016 official website
4. Gabriel Fricke (August 14, 2016). ""Sem rim", vaidoso, fã de arrocha, arteiro: 10 fatos sobre Isaquias Queiroz". Globosesporte.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved August 18, 2016.
5. "Isaquias fatura o bronze no Mundial e Brasil faz história na canoagem". Globosesporte.com (in Portuguese). August 31, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
6. "Isaquias Queiroz e Erlon de Souza levam Brasil a ouro inédito no Mundial de Canoagem". Mais Esporte (in Portuguese). August 23, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
7. "Ao lado de Erlon, Isaquias leva a prata e se consagra nas águas da Lagoa". Globo (in Portuguese). August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.