{{Short description|Brazilian swimmer (born 1962)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Ronald Menezes | image = | image_size = | caption = | full_name = Ronald Couce Menezes | nicknames = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1962|11|6}} | birth_place = Brazil | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | strokes = Freestyle | club = | collegeteam = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's swimming}} {{MedalCountry|{{BRA}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalSilver|1983 Caracas|4×100 m freestyle}} {{MedalCompetition|Universiade}} {{MedalBronze|1981 Bucharest|4x100m freestyle}} }}
'''Ronald Couce Menezes''' (born 6 November 1962) is a Brazilian former freestyle swimmer.<ref name="sportsreference">{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Ronald Menezes |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/ronald-menezes-1.html |access-date=2 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032615/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/ronald-menezes-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>
At the 1980 South American Championships, Menezes won the 100 meters freestyle and the 200 IM medley. At the 1981 Summer Universiade, held in Bucharest, Menezes won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay.<ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY OF BRAZIL'S MEDALS IN UNIVERSIADES |work=Best Swimming |date=13 August 2007 |url=http://www.bestswimming.com.br/2013/2007/08/13/histria-das-medalhas-do-brasil-nas-universades-7195/ |accessdate=28 March 2014 |language=pt |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108234950/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/2013/2007/08/13/histria-das-medalhas-do-brasil-nas-universades-7195/ |archivedate=8 November 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010202854/http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf |date=2014-10-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1981 Summer Universiade results |work=Hutchinson News |date=29 July 1981 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/hutchinson/hutchinson-news/1981/07-29/page-120 |accessdate=28 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1981 Summer Universiade results 2 |work=Hutchinson News |date=30 July 1981 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/hutchinson/hutchinson-news/1981/07-30/page-99 |accessdate=28 March 2014}}</ref>
He was at the 1983 Pan American Games, in Caracas, where he won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brazil medals at 1983 Pan |work=UOL |year=2007 |url=http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/historia/1983/nopodio.jhtm |accessdate=2 May 2013 |language=pt}}</ref>
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, he finished 10th in the 4×100-metre freestyle, and 28th in the 100-metre freestyle.<ref name="sportsreference" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{World Aquatics|id=1138672}} * {{Olympedia}}
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