Marcus D'Almeida

D'Almeida in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Marcus Vinicius Carvalho Lopes D'Almeida
Born	30 January 1998 (1998-01-30) (age 25) Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Medal record Men's recurve archery Representing  Brazil World Championships 2021 Yankton Individual 2023 Berlin Individual Archery World Cup 2023 Hermosillo Individual 2014 Lausanne Individual Pan American Games 2019 Lima Individual 2023 Santiago Mixed Team 2015 Toronto Team 2023 Santiago Team Pan American Championships 2021 Monterrey Team 2021 Monterrey Mixed team 2022 Santiago Individual 2018 Medellín Mixed team 2021 Monterrey Individual 2022 Santiago Mixed team South American Games 2014 Santiago Individual 2014 Santiago Team 2014 Santiago Mixed team Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Recurve mixed team Summer Youth Olympics 2014 Nanjing Individual World Youth Championships 2015 Yankton Cadet individual 2015 Yankton Cadet team

Marcus Vinicius Carvalho Lopes D'Almeida (born January 30, 1998 in Rio de Janeiro), known as Marcus D'Almeida,^[1][2][3] is a Brazilian athlete who competes in recurve archery. World runner-up in 2021. In February 2023, he became the first Brazilian to lead the world archery ranking in his category, the recurve bow.^[4][5]

Career

D'Almeida first competed internationally in 2013, and in 2014 won three gold medals at the South American Games (where he broke all South American records for 1440 Rounds) and qualified for the 2014 Archery World Cup Final as the second highest qualifier, where he won a silver medal, losing to Brady Ellison in the final by shoot-off. ^[6][7][8] His spectacular rise to the upper echelons of the sport while still a teenager has earned him the nickname, "Archery's Neymar".^[9]

He won a silver medal in the individual competition at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China, where he was the flagbearer for Brazil.^[10]

At the 2019 Pan American Games, he won the silver medal, losing only to Canadian Crispin Duenas, bronze medalist at the 2013 World Archery Championships, for a tight 6x4 score.^[11]

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, by beating Dutchman Sjef van den Berg and advancing to the round of 16, he obtained the best result of a Brazilian archer in the history of archery in the Olympics.^[12] He was eliminated in the round of 16 by Italian Mauro Nespoli, who finished with Olympic silver in this competition. Nespoli hit all the arrows in the most central part of the target (always getting 9 or 10 points).^[13][14]

In September 2021 he won the first medal in Brazil's history at the World Archery Championships. He won the silver medal, in a competition that featured all the medalists of the Tokyo Olympics.^[15]

In June 2022, he reached the 4th place in the world ranking after the title at the World Cup in Paris, where he defeated three Olympic champions, two of them South Koreans.^[16]

In February 2023, he became the first Brazilian to lead the world archery ranking in his category, the recurve bow.^[17] On May, he won his second title at a stage of the Archery World Cup with a win on the second stage in Shanghai. On August, at the 2023 World Archery Championships in Berlin, D'Almeida went on to win his secont World Championships medal, with a bronze, defeating 6–4 Indonesia's Arif Dwi Pangestu. Two weeks later, he won a bronze medal at the 4th stage of the 2023 Archery World Cup in Paris and, onde September 10th, he won another gold medal on the Final World Cup stage in Hermosillo, Mexico, defeating at the final south korean Lee Woo-seok 6–4, the most important title of his career.

References

External links

• Marcus D'Almeida at the World Archery Federation
• Marcus Vinicius D'Almeida at Olympics.com
• Marcus D'Almeida at Olympedia
• Marcus Vinicius D'Almeida at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games (archived)
• Marcus D'Almeida on Instagram