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Parathlete sponsored by Bahiana wins silver medal at the 2019 Rowing World Cup

Renê Campos is also a former Medicine student at Bahiana.

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“Happiness defines me right now! The reason for this? The unprecedented silver medal I won!”. That was the feeling of Rene Campos by winning second place in the 2019 Rowing World Cup, which took place in Rotterdam, Holland, from the 12th to the 14th of July. The Brazilian rower who is sponsored by Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, is also an alumnus of the institution's Medicine course and won a silver medal in the PR1 Male Single Skiff (PR1 M1x) category of the competition.

Renê Campos is a para-athlete with a great history of overcoming difficulties during the championships in which he participated and tells how he manages to improve his work. “The technical improvement could be seen in the reduction of time to complete the test, the result of intense training, but also of some partnerships that made it possible to set up a multidisciplinary team. An example of a partnership is the School Bahiana of Medicine, fundamental in the creation of the Training Camp (CT) in Pituaçu, allowing the replacement of training that until then took place only in a simulator, with training in the water”.

Since he started his career as a rower, the athlete from Bahia has already conquered the bi-championship of South American Adapted Rowing and was among the five best in other world rowing competitions. Renê Campos is now working to get a seat at the Tokyo 2020 Games, with the aim of winning the Paralympic medal.