Brazilian swimmer
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Fernando de Queiroz Scherer (born October 6, 1974) is a Brazilian former 🍇 international swimmer.
He won the bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and another bronze 🍇 medal four years later in Sydney with the Brazilian relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle.[1]
Scherer won his first major title 🍇 at the inaugural 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Palma de Mallorca, where he won the 100-meter freestyle.
He trained 🍇 at The Race Club, a swimming club founded by Olympic swimmers Gary Hall, Jr.
and his father, Gary Hall, Sr.
as a 🍇 training group for elite swimmers in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.[2]
Scherer is nicknamed Xuxa in his native country, 🍇 and he became Brazil's Sportsman of The Year in 1995 after winning one gold and one silver medal at the 🍇 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
Scherer was involved in the organization Cansei.
In 2009, he took part 🍇 in the second season of a reality television program called A Fazenda, where one of his fellow contestants was his 🍇 future wife, the actress and dancer Sheila Mello.
Scherer and Mello married on June 24, 2010, in São Paulo.
[3][4]Beginning [ edit 🍇 ]
Scherer began swimming when he was a child to help improve his respiratory problems.
When he was 14, he participated in 🍇 his first competitions and trained at the Doze de Agosto club.
In 1992, he began to achieve national prominence, winning the 🍇 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter freestyle in the Brazil Trophy.
That day, his friends created a nickname "Xuxa", by which Scherer became 🍇 widely known because his blond hair resembled that of a children's television presenter with the same name.[5]
International career [ edit 🍇 ]1993 [ edit ]
At the Brazilian short course championship, the Jose Finkel Trophy in Santos on July 7, 1993, the 🍇 Brazilian team comprising Fernando Scherer, Teófilo Ferreira, José Carlos Souza and Gustavo Borges, broke the world record in the 4×100-meter 🍇 freestyle with a time of 3:13.
97-three centiseconds better than the Swedish team record of 3:14.
00 from March 19, 1989.
On December 🍇 5, Brazil again broke the world record, with the same team, with a time of 3:12.11.
[6] This mark was achieved 🍇 at the 1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Palma de Mallorca, where Scherer won his first major titles: 🍇 the gold in the 100-meter freestyle and in the 4×100-meter freestyle, at 19 years of age and after five years 🍇 of competitive swimming experience.
With this, Scherer was elected as the revelation athlete of Brazil.
[5] He also finished eighth in the 🍇 50-meter freestyle.
1994 [ edit ]
Scherer participated in the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, where he won the bronze in 🍇 the 4×100-meter freestyle-along with Teófilo Ferreira, André Teixeira and Gustavo Borges.
[6][7] Scherer also finished 10th in the 50-meter freestyle and 🍇 14th in the 100-meter freestyle.[8]1995 [ edit ]
In 1995, Scherer signed with Flamengo.
He was the first swimmer with signed contract.
[5] 🍇 In March, he competed at the 1995 Pan American Games in Argentina, where he became champion of the 50-meter freestyle, 🍇 two silver medals in 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×200-meter freestyle, and bronze in the 100-meter freestyle.
[9] He was named the Brazilian 🍇 Athlete of the Year in 1995, after winning two gold medals in the 100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestyle at the 🍇 1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Rio de Janeiro.
[10] In the 4×100-meter freestyle, he opened with a time 🍇 of 47.
74 seconds in the heats and a time of 47.
63 seconds in the final-a South American and Championship record.
He 🍇 also won a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle.
1996 [ edit ]
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, in Atlanta, Scherer earned 🍇 a bronze medal in the 50-metre freestyle, came 5th in the 100-metre freestyle and 4th in the 4×100-metre freestyle.[11]1997 [ 🍇 edit ]
1997 was a bad year for Scherer.
He could not swim competitively for six months after experiencing problems in his 🍇 left shoulder and both knees caused after the Olympics.
[5] He competed in the 1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), 🍇 where he finished 13th in the 100-meter freestyle, and 20th in the 50-meter freestyle.
1998 [ edit ]
In 1998, Scherer moved 🍇 to Coral Springs, Florida.
[5] He swam at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships, in Perth, Australia, where he finished eighth in 🍇 the 50-meter freestyle, 17th in the 100-meter freestyle and sixth in the 4×100-meter freestyle.
[12] In August in New York City, 🍇 at the Goodwill Games, Scherer broke the South American record for the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 22.
18 seconds, 🍇 that would only be broken in 2007 by César Cielo.
He also broke the 100-metre freestyle record with a time of 🍇 48.
69 seconds, which was unbroken until 2006, also by Cielo.
[13][14] With that, Scherer attained first place in the world rankings 🍇 in both events; he was awarded the title of "World's Best" by Swimworld magazine, and for the second time the 🍇 best Brazilian athlete, by COB.
[5] At this time, the world record for the 50-meter freestyle was 21.
81 seconds, set by 🍇 Tom Jager; the 100-meter freestyle world record was 48.
21 seconds, set by Alexander Popov.
At the end of 1998, Scherer broke 🍇 the third consecutive world record by a Brazilian relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle on short course.
On December 20, shortly 🍇 after the end of Jose Finkel Trophy, the team of Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, 🍇 fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama and recorded a time of 3:10.
45; a record which would 🍇 be broken in 2000 by the Swedish team.[6][15]
In this competition, Scherer had also broken the short-course South American records in 🍇 the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 21.
44 seconds, the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 47.
17 seconds, and the 🍇 Brazilian record in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 53.13 seconds.
[16] In the 50-meter freestyle, Scherer was 0.
13 seconds 🍇 slower than Mark Foster's world record of 21.
31 seconds, obtained on December 13.
He also came close to the world record 🍇 in the 100-meter freestyle of 46.
74 seconds set by Popov in 1994.
Scherer was also elected Best Swimmer in the World, 🍇 in 1998, by FINA.
1999 [ edit ]
In March 1999, Scherer broke the South American record for the 50-meter butterfly twice 🍇 in one week.
[5] Also this year, Scherer participated in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, in which Brazil achieved 🍇 its best swimming results of all time.
The Brazilian 4×100-meter medley relay team of Alexandre Massura, Marcelo Tomazini, Gustavo Borges and 🍇 Scherer won the race for the first time in the Pan's history, with a time of 3:40.
27, breaking the Pan 🍇 American and South American records and securing a place in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Scherer also won the gold in the 🍇 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle, and 4×100-meter freestyle and broke the South American record for the latter race, becoming the first 🍇 Brazilian to win four gold medals in the same Pan American Games.
[5][17]2000 [ edit ]
This year, Scherer forwent all competitions 🍇 to prepare for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
However, after an accident on the stairs of his house he sprained 🍇 an ankle and partially tore the ligament, almost costing him the Games.
Although his injury affected his performance-he hardly used his 🍇 legs-, Scherer won the bronze in the 4×100-meter freestyle and participated in two other heats, ranking 12th in the 4×100-meter 🍇 medley and 20th in the 50-meter freestyle.
[5][11]2002 [ edit ]
In 2002, Scherer returned to Brazil and moved to São Paulo.[5]2003 🍇 [ edit ]
Scherer and Gustavo Borges in the 2003 Pan American Games
At the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Scherer 🍇 broke his own South American record in the 50-meters butterfly with a time of 23.86 seconds.
[18] He went to the 🍇 final, finishing in 8th.
[19] He also finished 23rd in the 50-meter freestyle,[20] and 12th in the 4×100-meter freestyle.[21]
At the age 🍇 of 29, Scherer competed in the his third Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, where he helped Brazil win 21 🍇 medals in swimming-Brazil's all-time record.
Scherer won the gold in the 50-meter freestyle, beating the Olympic champion Gary Hall Jr.
and world 🍇 champion José Meolans, and gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle.[22]2004 [ edit ]
In May, Scherer equaled his South American record of 🍇 23.
86 seconds in the 50-meter butterfly.
[23] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he swam just one race, ranking 11th 🍇 in the 50-meter freestyle.[11]2005 [ edit ]
Now 30 years old, Scherer competed in the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, 🍇 where on June 24, he broke the South American record in the 50-meter butterfly in the semifinals with a time 🍇 of 23.
55 seconds,[24] a record that was beaten in 2009 by César Cielo.
[25][26] Scherer finished fifth in the final.
[27] He 🍇 also finished in 24th place in the 50-meter freestyle.[28]2007 [ edit ]
In 2007, Scherer retired from competitive swimming.[5]Records [ edit 🍇 ]
Fernando Scherer is the former holder of the following records:[29]
Race Time Date Record Pool 50m freestyle[13] 22.
18 August 1998 South 🍇 American Long Course 100m freestyle[14] 48.
69 August 2, 1998 South American Long Course 50m butterfly[25] 23.
55 July 24, 2005 South 🍇 American Long Course 4 × 100 m freestyle[30] 3:17.
18 August 1999 South American Long Course 4 × 100 m medley[31] 🍇 3:40.
27 August 1999 South American Long Course 50m freestyle[32] 21.
44 December 17, 1998 South American Short Course 100m freestyle[16] 47.
17 🍇 December 19, 1998 South American Short Course 100m butterfly[16] 53.
13 December 19, 1998 Brazilian Short Course 4 × 100 m 🍇 freestyle[33] 3:10.
45 December 20, 1998 World Short CourseSee also [ edit ]
