Personal information | |
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Full name | Adriano Manuel Santos Niz |
National team |
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Born |
Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal |
5 March 1986
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Clube Fluvial Vilacondense |
Coach | António Paulo Vasconcelos |
Adriano Manuel Santos Niz (born March 5, 1986) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and currently holds a Portuguese record in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands (3:23.06). Niz also trains for Clube Fluvial Vilacondense, under head coach António Paulo Vasconcelos.
Niz qualified for the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, as a member of the Portuguese team, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Teaming with Luís Monteiro, João Araújo, and Miguel Pires in heat one, Niz swam a second leg in a split of 1:52.35, but the Portuguese team settled only for seventh place and fourteenth overall with a national record of 7:27.99.