Celebrate the Induction of Marcus Mattioli Into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame

Photo Courtesy: Andy Ross

Marcus Mattioli is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer, who participated in the 1980 (Moscow) Summer Olympic Games for his native country Brazil. There, he won the bronze medal in the men’s 4×200m freestyle relay event, alongside Jorge Fernandes, Cyro Delgado, and Djan Madruga, with a time of 7:29.30. He also swam the 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly and 200m freestyle, unfortunately, not making the final. Mattioli also belongs to a select group of a very few Brazilian swimmers (just 13) that are Olympic medalists.

Mattioli never really retired from swimming and moved right into Masters swimming after ending his Olympic career in 1988, immediately receiving rankings in the Top 10 Masters category.

He competed at the 1988 Brisbane FINA Masters World Swimming Championships, where he won and set six new individual Masters world records. After Brisbane he quit swimming for 18 years and did not return to Masters until 2006 to swim in the XI FINA Master Championship where he won two individuals gold medals, two individual silver medals and set two new Masters world records.

Since his return, Marcus Mattioli has been on the Top Ten list every year, for a total 15 times. He has set 14 long course and six short course FINA Masters World Records in the freestyle, butterfly and I.M. events. In world rankings since 1988, he has a total of 56- number 1, 27- number 2 and 13- number 3 total world rankings in the freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and IM. He has competed in seven FINA World Championships since 1988, winning 29 gold and four silver medals.

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Thomas A. Small

5 years ago

Congratulations