National team Portugal Role Swimmer Strokes Freestyle swimming Name Luis Monteiro Club FC Porto | Coach Rui Sardinha Weight 80 kg Sport Swimming Height 1.91 m | |
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Full name Luis Miguel Rodrigues Monteiro Born 22 January 1983 (age 41) ( 1983-01-22 ) Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal | ||
Luís Miguel Rodrigues Monteiro (born January 22, 1983) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He is a fourth-place finalist in the 200 m freestyle (1:52.33) at the 2001 European Junior Swimming Championships in Valletta, Malta. Monteiro is a member of the swimming team for Football Club Porto (Portuguese: Futebol Clube do Porto), and is trained by long-time coach and mentor Rui Sardinha.
Monteiro qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 1:50.93 (200 m freestyle) from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. In the 200 m freestyle, Monteiro challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including three-time Olympian Jacob Carstensen of Denmark. He touched out Poland's Łukasz Drzewiński to take a fifth spot and twenty-ninth overall by 0.12 of a second in 1:51.78. He also teamed up with Adriano Niz, João Araújo, and Miguel Pires in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the lead-off leg in heat one, Monteiro set his own personal best of 1:50.43, but the Portuguese team settled only for seventh place and fourteenth overall in a new national record of 7:27.99.