Maciel Santos

Maciel Sousa Santos (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian boccia player.

Santos started playing boccia at the age of eleven and was already competing internationally at fourteen. He trains daily for six to eight hours. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, he won the gold medal by defeating Yan Zhiqiang in the Individual BC2 event. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won the bronze medal in the same event.

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1985 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Ceará

Paralympic medalists in boccia

Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic boccia players for Brazil

Paralympic gold medalists for Brazil

Paralympic bronze medalists for Brazil

21st-century Brazilian people