GARBE Andrey Pereira

Date of Birth: 4 Jan 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Sport Class: S9

Place of birth: BRAGANCA PAULISTA

Birth Country:

Brazil

Place of residence : BRAGANCA PAULISTA

Residence Country:

Brazil

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke - S9
	Men's 4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points BRA Brazil	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke - S9 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
9	100m Backstroke - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:07.21

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama [Rio de Janeiro, BRA]

Leonardo Tomasello [national], BRA

He took up swimming at age nine in Braganca Paulista, Brazil. (vasco.com.br, 11 Mar 2021; pt.org.br, 28 Nov 2014)

He was invited by coach Luiz Aparecido dos Santos to try the sport. "On the moment that I was on the water, I fell in love. For me, it was unexplainable. Since then I never quit the sport." (vasco.com.br, 11 Mar 2021; cpb.org.br, 01 Jun 2019;gazetabragantina.com.br, 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (vasco.com.br, 11 Mar 2021)

Brazilian Para swimmer Daniel Dias, US swimmer Michael Phelps. (globo.com, 27 Oct 2014; gazetabragantina.com.br, 2015)

He listens to electronic music and slaps himself on the chest before a race. (ge.globo.com, 29 Aug 2019)

Philosophy:

"Sport helped me overcome my impairment and changed my life." (premiomktcontemporaneo.com.br, 01 Nov 2016)

General Interest

Classification
S9, SB8, SM9 (paralympic.org, 08 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (cpb.org.br, 01 Jun 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (cpb.org.br, 01 Jun 2019)

Impairment Details
When he was 16 months old, his right leg was amputated above the knee after he contracted meningitis and a thrombosis. (cpb.org.br, 01 Jun 2019)

General
AID FROM AN IDOL
During his childhood, he did not have financial conditions to purchase new prosthesis, and he even used a wooden one. "I was supposed to stay for two years with a prosthesis, and I stayed with it for four years. A child during his growth stage. I did not care much, and my family never treated me as a disabled person. The prosthesis could not handle me, I just wanted to play football, to run, so I used to break them." Later he was introduced to the Brazilian Para swimmer Daniel Dias, who embraced him as his apprentice and passed on prostheses he no longer used. "I do not even have words to describe Daniel. He helped me from the beginning with the prostheses. It was like an older brother giving clothes that does not fit anymore to the younger brother. He won new prostheses, and handed the used ones to me. Daniel is an inspiration, my big brother." (ge.globo.com, 29 Aug 2019)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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