Gustavo Borges

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Medal record
Gustavo Borges (right) and Fernando Scherer
Men's swimming
Competitor for Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver	1992 Barcelona	100 m freestyle
Silver	1996 Atlanta	200 m freestyle
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	100 m freestyle
Bronze	2000 Sydney	4x100 m freestyle
World Championships (Long Course)
Bronze	1994 Rome	100 m freestyle
Bronze	1994 Rome	4x100 m freestyle
World Championships (Short Course)
Gold	1995 Rio	200 m freestyle
Gold	1995 Rio	4x100 m freestyle
Gold	1997 Gothenburg	200 m freestyle
Silver	1995 Rio	100 m freestyle
Silver	1997 Gothenburg	100 m freestyle
Silver	2002 Moscow	200 m freestyle
Bronze	1995 Rio	4x200 m freestyle
Pan American Games
Gold	1991 Havana	100 m freestyle
Gold	1991 Havana	4x100 m freestyle
Gold	1995 Mar del Plata	100 m freestyle
Gold	1995 Mar del Plata	200 m freestyle
Gold	1999 Winnipeg	200 m freestyle
Gold	1999 Winnipeg	4x100 m freestyle
Gold	1999 Winnipeg	4x100 m medley
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo	4x100 m freestyle
Silver	1991 Havana	200 m freestyle
Silver	1991 Havana	4x200 m freestyle
Silver	1995 Mar del Plata	4x100 m freestyle
Silver	1995 Mar del Plata	4x200 m freestyle
Silver	2003 Santo Domingo	4x200 m freestyle
Silver	1999 Winnipeg	4x200 m freestyle
Bronze	1991 Havana	50 m freestyle
Bronze	1999 Winnipeg	100 m freestyle
Bronze	2003 Santo Domingo	100 m freestyle
Summer Universiade
Silver	1995 Fukuoka	100 m freestyle

Gustavo França Borges (born December 2, 1972 in Ribeirão Preto) is a former international top swimmer from Brazil. He participated in four Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. He is the second Brazilian athlete with most medals, behind only sailor Torben Grael with four (one in 1992, two in 1996 and one in 2000), and also the second Brazilian with most Pan-American Games gold medals with eight (behind table tennis player Hugo Hoyama). His first medal was silver in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, which took a while to be received as his lane's chronometer wasn't working, and the judges had to see the TV recordings to guarantee his medal.^[1]

6 ft 7 ½ inch Borges currently lives in São Paulo. He has lived in Jacksonville and was a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, under the guidance of swimming coach Jon Urbanchek, who also coached the likes of American Eric Namesnik and Dutchman Marcel Wouda in the mid-1990s. Borges carried the flag for the Brazilian squad during the closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.