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| Full name | Ricardo Esberad Capanema | ||||||||||||
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September 19, 1931 Brazil |
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Ricardo Esberad Capanema (born September 19, 1931) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Brazil.
At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Aram Boghossian, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto.
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 400-metre freestyle, not reaching the final.