Daynara de Paula

Daynara de Paula

File:Kazan 2015 - 50m butterfly Daynara de Paula.JPG Kazan 2015
Personal information
Full name	Daynara Lopes Ferreira de Paula
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1989-07-25) July 25, 1989 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Height
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, Freestyle
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Brazil Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 100m butterfly 2011 Guadalajara 4x100m freestyle 2011 Guadalajara 4x100m medley 2015 Toronto 4×100 m freestyle 2015 Toronto 4×100 m medley South American Games 2010 Medellín 50 m butterfly 2010 Medellín 100 m butterfly 2010 Medellín 4x100 m freestyle 2010 Medellín 4x200 m freestyle 2010 Medellín 4x100 m medley 2014 Santiago 100 m butterfly 2014 Santiago 4x100 m freestyle 2014 Santiago 4x100 m medley 2010 Medellín 50 m freestyle Military World Games 2015 Mungyeong 4 x 100 m mixed freestyle 2015 Mungyeong 4 x 100 m freestyle 2015 Mungyeong 4 x 100 m medley

Daynara Lopes Ferreira de Paula (born July 25, 1989 in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil) is a Brazilian butterfly swimmer.

International career

2008 Summer Olympics

Rooted in São Caetano do Sul as a child, at 11 years old, she won sponsorship to compete across the country. As a Minas Tênis Clube's sportsman, her first major involvement was in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At 18, she won her Olympic berth in the last Brazilian trials, the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro. Daynara got it done in the 100-metre butterfly playoffs, where she noted 59.30 seconds - five hundredths time below the FINA index. Also broke the South American record of Gabriella Silva, 59.79 seconds. In Beijing, she finished 34th in the 100-metre butterfly.

2009–12

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, finished 10th in the 100-metre butterfly, and went to the 50-metre butterfly final, finishing in 8th place. In the 50-metre butterfly semifinals, she broke the South American record, with a time of 25.85 seconds.

In November 2009, at the Stockholm step of the 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, broke the South American record of the 100-metre butterfly (57.23 seconds at heats, and 56.52 seconds in the final, on 10 November) and the 50-metre butterfly (25.94 seconds, on November 11).

Daynara was at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, where she finished 10th in the 50-metre butterfly, 21st in 100-metre butterfly, 17th in the 4×100-metre medley and 13th in the 4×100-metre freestyle.

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, she won the silver medal in the 100-metre butterfly and in the 4×100-metre freestyle, and won bronze in the 4×100-metre medley. She was also in 9th place in the 100-metre freestyle.

2012 Summer Olympics

She participated in her second Olympics in 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she finished 26th in the 100-metre freestyle and 33rd in the 100-metre butterfly.

2012–16

At the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Istanbul, she ranked 16th in the 50-metre butterfly, 10th in the 100-metre butterfly and 10th in the 4×100-metre medley. In the 4×100-metre medley heats, Daynara, along with the Brazilian team, broke the South American record with a time of 3:57.66.

At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, in the 4×100-metre freestyle, she broke the South American record, with a time of 3:41.05, along with Larissa Oliveira, Graciele Herrmann and Alessandra Marchioro. The Brazilian team finished in 11th place, and did not advance to the final. She also finished 15th in the 100-metre butterfly., 20th in the 50-metre butterfly. and 12th in the 4×100-metre medley, along with Etiene Medeiros, Larissa Oliveira and Beatriz Travalon.

At the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Gold Coast, Queensland, she finished 5th in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay, along with Graciele Herrmann, Etiene Medeiros and Alessandra Marchioro; 5th in the 4x100-metre medley relay, along with Graciele Herrmann, Ana Carla Carvalho and Etiene Medeiros; 12th in the 100-metre butterfly; and 19th in the 50-metre freestyle.

At the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, Qatar, Daynara de Paula broke the South American record in the semifinals of the Women's 50 metre butterfly, with a time of 25.54. She finished 8th in the final. Daynara was also in another finals: she finished 5th in the Women's 4 × 50 metre medley relay (1:46.47, South American record), along with Etiene Medeiros, Ana Carla Carvalho and Larissa Oliveira; and finished 7th in the Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (3:33.93, South American record), and 8th in the Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay (1:38.78, South American record), both relays formed by Daynara de Paula, Daiane Oliveira, Alessandra Marchioro and Larissa Oliveira. She also swam the Women's 100 metre butterfly, where she finished in 11th place.

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, de Paula won two medals in two Brazilian relays: in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (this, breaking the South American record, with a time of 3:37.39) and in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay. She also finished 4th in the 100 metre butterfly.

At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, she finished 6th in the 4 × 100 metre mixed freestyle relay, along with Bruno Fratus, Larissa Oliveira and Matheus Santana, breaking the South American record with a time of 3:25.58; 9th in the 4 × 100 metre mixed medley relay; 11th in the Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay; 13th in the Women's 50 metre butterfly,; 14th in the Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay; and 18th in the Women's 100 metre butterfly.

See also

• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships
• List of South American records in swimming
• List of Brazilian records in swimming

External links

• Profile