GONCALVES SILVA Ruiter Antonio

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
2	4x100m Freestyle Relay - 34 Points	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3:48.98
5	100m Freestyle - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	57.44
7	50m Freestyle - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	26.62
World Championships
1	4x100m Freestyle Relay - 34 Points	2017	Mexico City, MEX	4:10.30
2	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2017	Mexico City, MEX	2:27.08
2	4x100m Freestyle Relay - 34 Points	2015	Glasgow, GBR	3:51.44
2	4x100m Freestyle Relay - 34 Points	2013	Montreal, QC, CAN	3:51.64
4	50m Freestyle - S9	2017	Mexico City, MEX	27.02
4	100m Freestyle - S9	2017	Mexico City, MEX	57.87
6	50m Freestyle - S9	2019	London, GBR	26.15
6	100m Freestyle - S9	2019	London, GBR	57.10
6	100m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	58.65
7	400m Freestyle - S9	2017	Mexico City, MEX	4:55.18
7	50m Freestyle - S9	2013	Montreal, QC, CAN	26.95
7	400m Freestyle - S9	2013	Montreal, QC, CAN	4:35.49
8	100m Freestyle - S9	2013	Montreal, QC, CAN	59.16
10	50m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	27.52
10	400m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	4:37.42
11	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	2:28.59
11	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2013	Montreal, QC, CAN	2:30.22

Spending time with family and his dogs, watching basketball. (esportelandia.com.br, 25 Feb 2020; Facebook page, 07 Dec 2018)

Athlete, Motivational Speaker

Wife Danyelle Loyola, daughters Luiza [2012] and Julia [2020]

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Gremio Nautico Uniao [GNU] [Porto Alegre, BRA]

Leonardo Tomasello Araujo [national], BRA

He has competed in Para basketball at state level in Brazil. (ruitersilva.com.br, 13 Mar 2018)

2013 for Brazil, World Championships in Montreal, Canada (Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)

He began learning to swim at age six months in Catalao, Brazil. (ruitersilva.com.br, 13 Mar 2018; Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)

His parents enrolled him in swimming lessons. He also competed in football and basketball during his youth before deciding to focus on swimming. He then met Brazilian Para swimmer Jose Afonso Medeiros, and was encouraged to train for a swimming competition in 2009. "After the tournament I talked to my father and said that I wanted to try something in swimming." (esportelandia.com.br, 25 Feb 2020; ruitersilva.com.br, 13 Mar 2018)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (ruitersilva.com.br, 13 Mar 2018)

Winning a silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay 34 points at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)

His parents, and his wife. (Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)

"If you can imagine it, you can do it." (Athlete, 02 Dec 2017)