Ricardo Capanema

{{Short description|Brazilian swimmer (1933–1998)}}

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| full_name = Ricardo Esberad Capanema

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| nationality = {{BRA}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|9|19}}

| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|05|10|1931|9|19}}

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| strokes = Freestyle

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{{MedalSport|Men's swimming}}

{{MedalCountry|{{BRA}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalSilver | 1951 Buenos Aires | 4 x 200 m freestyle}}

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Ricardo Esberad Capanema (19 September 1933 – 10 May 1998) was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil.{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpianos.com.br/consulta_verb.php?&cod=615&mod=Nata%E7%E3o |title=Atletas Olímpicos Brasileiros: RICARDO ESBERARD CAPANEMA |website=olimpianos.com.br |language=pt |access-date=4 September 2021}}{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Ricardo Esperard |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/es/ricardo-esperard-1.html |access-date=2 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032454/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/es/ricardo-esperard-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18}} At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Aram Boghossian, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto.{{cite web |title=Brazil medals at 1951 Pan |website=UOL.com.br |date=2007 |url=http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/historia/1951/nopodio.jhtm |accessdate=2 May 2013 |language=pt}} At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 400-metre freestyle, not reaching the final.

He won the gold medal at the 1953 Summer International University Sport Week for swimming in 100m backstroke for men at Dortmund in Germany.{{Cite web |title=InterSportStats |url=https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000001432 |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=intersportstats.com}}