TAVARES Vitor Goncalves

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
3	Singles SS6	2019	Basel, SUI
3	Mixed SS6 Doubles X	2019	Basel, SUI
3	Men's SS6 Doubles M	2019	Basel, SUI

Vitinho (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021)

Watching movies. (bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com, 10 Oct 2018)

Physical Education - International University Centre [UNINTER], Curitiba, BRA

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Badminton Zardo [Curitiba, BRA]

Italo Hauer, BRA

2017 for Brazil (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021)

He took up the sport at age 17 in Curitiba, Brazil. (rededoesporte.gov.br, 13 Aug 2019; uninter.com, 11 Sep 2019)

He was first enrolled at a football club by his father. He later took up mountain biking until he was invited to join Para badminton by a sports teacher in Curitiba, Brazil. "The sport changed my life in different ways. When I began it was just a hobby. I didn't imagine that it would have this magnitude. Then I became champion in my first national competition. Now I consider it seriously, as my profession." (rededoesporte.gov.br, 13 Aug 2019; olimpiadatododia.com.br, 01 Sep 2019)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021; rededoesporte.gov.br, 13 Aug 2019)

He trains on the court for three hours a day, five days a week. He also goes to the gym three times a week. (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021)

Winning gold at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. (olimpiadatododia.com.br, 01 Sep 2019)

Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna. (bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com, 10 Oct 2018)

His parents, and his sister. (bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com, 10 Oct 2018)

He does meditation exercises before matches. (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021)

"The body reaches what the mind believes." (badminton.org.br, 09 Aug 2021)

In 2017, 2018, and 2019 he was named Para Badminton Player of the Year by the Brazilian Paralympic Committee. (badminton.org.br, 18 Dec 2019, 05 Dec 2017; cpb.org.br, 16 Dec 2018)