dos SANTOS Eliseu

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Pairs - BC4	2012	London, GBR
1	Pairs - BC4	2008	Beijing, CHN
2	Pairs - BC4	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
3	Individual - BC4	2012	London, GBR
3	Individual - BC4	2008	Beijing, CHN
10	Individual - BC4	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
1	Pairs - BC4	2010	Lisbon, POR
2	Individual - BC4	2014	Beijing, CHN
2	Pairs - BC4	2014	Beijing, CHN
3	Individual - BC4	2010	Lisbon, POR
7	Individual - BC4	2018	Liverpool, GBR
7	Individual - BC4	2006	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
12	Pairs - BC4	2018	Liverpool, GBR

Athlete

Wife Nadia, son Nicolas, daughter Natasha

Portuguese

Associacao dos Deficientes Fisicos do Parana [ADFP] [Curitiba, BRA]

His older brother Marcelo has represented Brazil in boccia and won silver alongside Eliseu in the BC4 mixed pairs event at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (esportes.terra.com.br, 13 Sep 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 05 Aug 2021)

He began playing boccia at age 29. Two months after he started training, he won bronze at the Brazilian championships. (cpb.org.br, 01 Jun 2019; olimpiadatododia.com.br, 06 May 2020)

He saw people practising boccia while he was going for physiotherapy, and was invited to take part. (olimpiadatododia.com.br, 06 May 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (esportes.terra.com.br, 13 Sep 2016)

Winning his first medal, a bronze, at the Brazilian championships in 2005. "When I came back home, my mother looked at me in a way filled with pride, with her eyes filled with tears. Since it was my first, I kept taking it out the drawer to look at it every five minutes." (olimpiadatododia.com.br, 06 May 2020)

He was named Best Brazilian Boccia Player by the Brazilian Paralympic Committee in 2011. (cpb.org.br, 20 Dec 2011)