Beatriz Bezerra

Beatriz Bezerra (born 1 March 2006) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. At the 2022 World Junior Championships, she won silver medals in the 50-metre butterfly and 100-metre butterfly and a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay. She is a five-time gold medalist and one-time silver medalist at the 2022 South American Youth Games.

Beatriz Bezerra

Personal information
National team	Brazil
Born	(2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 19)[1] Brazil
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Brazil Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Junior Championships 0 2 1 South American Youth Games 5 1 0 Total 5 3 1 World Junior Championships 2022 Lima 50 m butterfly 2022 Lima 100 m butterfly 2022 Lima 4×100 m freestyle South American Youth Games 2022 Rosario 50 m butterfly 2022 Rosario 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Rosario 4×100 m medley 2022 Rosario 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Rosario 4×100 m mixed medley 2022 Rosario 100 m butterfly

Background

Bezerra was born 1 March 2006 in Brazil.^[1][2]

Career

2022

In April and May, at the 2022 South American Youth Games, held in Rosario, Argentina, Bezerra won gold medals in the 50-metre butterfly, 4×100-metre freestyle relay, 4×100-metre medley relay, 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, and 4×100-metre mixed medley relay, as well as a silver medal in the 100-metre butterfly.^[2][3]

2022 World Junior Championships

At the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held starting 30 August in Lima, Peru, 16-year-old Bezerra won her first medal of the Championships on day four with a silver medal in the 50-metre butterfly, finishing second behind 15-year-old Jana Pavalić of Croatia in the final with a personal pest time of 26.67 seconds.^[4][5][6] She won her second medal the following day, splitting the third-fastest second leg relay time in the final of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, less than two seconds slower than the fastest second leg swimmer Nikolett Pádár of Hungary, to help win the bronze medal with a final time of 3:50.13.^[6][7][8] The sixth and final day of competition, she won her third medal, a silver medal in the 100-metre butterfly with a personal best time of 59.69 seconds.^[6][9][10] Her three medals helped tie the all-time best medal table performance for Brazil at a single FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, a record of five total medals, one gold, three silver, and one bronze, from the first edition of the competition, held in 2006.^{[6][11][12][13]} In her other four events, she placed fifth in the finals of the 4×100-metre mixed medley relay and the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, placed sixth in the final of the 100-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 56.97 seconds, and placed sixth in the final of the 50-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 26.28 seconds.^[11][14]

At the 2022 Carlos Campos Sobrinho Trophy in late November in Recife, Bezerra won the 100-metre butterfly with a new competition record of 1:00.44 after first setting a new competition record of 1:00.81 in the preliminaries.^[15]

2023

On 30 May, the first day of the 2023 Brazil National Swimming Championships in Recife, 17-year-old Bezerra placed sixth in the final of the 100-metre butterfly with a time of 1:00.55.^[16] Three days later, she won her heat of the 50-metre butterfly in the preliminaries with a personal best time of 26.57 seconds and qualified for the evening final.^[17] In the final she lowered her personal best time by three-tenths of a second to a 2023 World Aquatics Championships qualifying time of 26.27 seconds to win the silver medal, finishing just 0.01 seconds behind gold medalist 18-year-old Celine Bispo.^[18]

International championships (50 m)

Meet	50 free	100 free	50 fly	100 fly	4×100 free	4×100 medley	4×100 mixed free	4×100 mixed medley
SAYG 2022 (age: 16)			(27.60)	(1:01.73)	(3:49.36)	(4:18.86)	(3:39.80)	(3:58.32)
WJC 2022 (age: 16)	6th (26.28)	6th (56.97)	(26.67)	(59.69)	(3:50.13)		5th (3:36.24)	5th (3:59.50)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Ref
50 m freestyle	26.28	2022 World Junior Championships	Lima, Peru	4 September 2022	[14]
100 m freestyle	56.97	2022 World Junior Championships	Lima, Peru	1 September 2022	[14]
50 m butterfly	26.27	2023 Brazil National Swimming Championships	Recife	2 June 2023	[18]
100 m butterfly	59.69	2022 World Junior Championships	Lima, Peru	4 September 2022	[9]

Awards and honours

• Brazilian Olympic Committee, Year-end Junior Athletes Retrospective, highlight: 2022^[19]
• Olimpíada Todo Dia, Youth Athletes Retrospective, highlight: 2022^[20]