Rildene Firmino
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Born | 1974 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Paraplegia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S5, SB3, SM4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rildene Fonseca Firmino (born 1974) is a retired Brazilian Paralympic swimmer who competed at international elite competitions, she is a double Parapan American Games champion and a two-time World bronze medalist.[1][2]
Disability[]
Firmino and her cousin , both aged six at the time, were involved in a shooting incident. Fonseca got a hold of Firmino's grandfather's .38 caliber revolver and was play shooting the gun with Firmino, the gun had a single bullet in the drum and Firmino was shot in the T11 vertebra and it exited her right lung. Her injuries were so severe that she had near-fatal lung and liver complications and spent three days recovering in an intensive care unit at a nearby hospital. She was left with life-changing injuries and was paraplegic for the rest of her life.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Rildene Firmino - IPC Athlete Bio". ipc.infostradasports.com. 4 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Silvania Costa breaks world record for long jump at the closing of Caixa Lotteries Circuit (in Portuguese)". Jornal do Brasil. 26 June 2016.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Shot by her cousin (in Portuguese)". globo.com. 13 September 2016.
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
- Paralympic swimmers of Brazil
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2003 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Shooting survivors