Nationality Brazil Strokes Freestyle | Sport Swimming | |
Full name José Luciano Nava Namorado | ||
José Luciano Nava Namorado was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil. Born in Portugal, he became a naturalized Brazilian.
Participated at the inaugural World Aquatics Championships in 1973 Belgrade, where he finished 5th in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Ruy de Oliveira, José Aranha and James Huxley Adams, and 13th in the 200-metre freestyle. In the 400-metre freestyle, he did 4:14.37, not going to the finals. He also swam the 4×200-metre freestyle, finishing 11th, with the same team.
At the 1973 Summer Universiade, in Moscow, Namorado won a bronze medal in the 400-metre freestyle, with a time of 4:12.74, and in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with José Aranha, James Huxley Adams and Alfredo Machado.
He was at the 1975 Pan American Games, in Mexico City. He won the bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre medley. He also finished 8th in the 100-metre freestyle.
Namorado is a former South American record holder of the 200-metre freestyle. In 1973, he also broke two times the South American record in the 400-metre freestyle.
He died in the 70s.