Bruno de Barros

Bruno Lins Tenório de Barros (born 7 January 1987) is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.

Bruno de Barros

Barros in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Bruno Lins Tenório de Barros
Born	(1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 Maceió, Alagoas
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Country	Brazil
Sport	Athletics
Event	200 metres
Medal record Men's athletics Representing Brazil Olympics 2008 Beijing 4×100 m relay South American Championships 2013 Cartagena 100 m Lusophony Games 2006 Lusophony Games 200 m
Updated on 13 April 2014

Biography

Barros was born in Maceió and resides in São Bernardo. He represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed in the 4x100 metres relay together with José Carlos Moreira, Vicente de Lima and Sandro Viana. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the Jamaican, Trinidad and Japanese teams. He also took part in the 200 metres individual, finishing fifth with a time of 21.15 seconds in his first round heat, which was not enough to qualify for the second round.

His personal best time is 20.47, achieved in February 2008 in São Paulo. He also has 10.22 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in March 2008 in São Paulo.

In 2009, he was suspended by the IAAF for 2 years for a doping offence involving the drug rh-EPO.

He represented Brazil in the 1st Lusophone Games that took place in Macau, China in 2006; in the 2nd Lusophony Games in Lisbon, Portugal; and also in the 2012 Summer Olympics, again in both the 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay.

Barros would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion in 2017 of the Jamaican team for Nesta Carter's failed anti-doping test.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.16 (wind: +1.8 m/s) – São Paulo, 21 March 2009
• 200 m: 20.16 (wind: +1.1 m/s) – São Paulo, 7 August 2011

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Brazil
2004	South American Youth Championships	Guayaquil, Ecuador	1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.42 s
2006	Lusophony Games	Macau	1st	200 m	21.56 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
	South American U-23 Championships	Buenos Aires, Argentina	6th	200 m	21.20 w (wind: +2.3 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	40.15
2008	Ibero-American Championships	Iquique, Chile	2nd	200 m	20.95 (wind: -0.5 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.96
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	5th (h)	200 m	21.15 (wind: -1.1 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	38.24
	South American U-23 Championships	Lima, Perú	2nd	100 m	10.70 A (wind: -2.0 m/s)
			1st	200 m	21.13 A (wind: -1.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	40.06
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:09.02
2009	South American Championships	Lima, Perú	–	200 m	DQ
	Lusophony Games	Lisbon, Portugal	–	200 m	DQ
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	6th	200 m	20.31 (wind: +0.8 m/s)
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
	Pan American Games	Guadalajara, México	3rd	200 m	20.45 A (wind: -1.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.18 A
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	6th (sf)	200 m	20.55 (wind: -0.5 m/s)
			4th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	38.35
2013	South American Championships	Cartagena, Colombia	2nd	100 m	10.33 (wind: +1.3 m/s)
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	19th (h)	200 m	20.60 (wind: +0.0 m/s)
2014	South American Games	Santiago, Chile	4th	200 m	20.77 (wind: -1.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.90
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	26th (h)	200 m	20.42
			—	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	43rd (h)	200 m	20.59
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	38.41
2017	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
	South American Championships	Asunción, Paraguay	2nd	100 m	10.22
			1st (h)	200 m	20.411
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.47
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.32

¹Did not start in the final

External links

• Bruno de Barros at World Athletics
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bruno de Barros". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.