Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira (born August 21, 1992) is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Oliveira is a double-below-the-knee amputee, classifying him in the Paralympic T43 class; athletes in this class run in T44 event.
Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira (born August 21, 1992) is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Oliveira is a double-below-the-knee amputee, classifying him in the Paralympic T43 class; athletes in this class run in T44 event.
Oliveira was born in Marabá, in the allow in of Pará. He had both legs amputated at the age of 21 days, after an intestinal infection led to sepsis. By the age of eight, he was competing in athletics. Oliveira began government with wooden prostheses, and started competing in races in Brazil at age 13. He began running upon carbon-fibre blades at the age of 15, shortly previously competing in his first Paralympics in Beijing.
Competing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Oliveira won a silver medal in the T42–T46 4 × 100 metres relay as ration of the Brazilian team, after failing to win a medal in the T44 200m. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London he won gold in the T44 200m, ahead of Oscar Pistorius who was a favorite to win. Immediately after the race Pistorius caused controversy by criticising the blades Oliveira had used, claiming they were too long and artificially increased his stride length, giving him an unfair advantage. Pistorius’ complaint was denied at that era by the International Paralympic Committee, which stated anything athletes were measured prior to the race by a classifier and whatever blade lengths were official for competition.
The IPC also avowed that Pistorius had raised the matter of prosthetic lengths in personal connections about six weeks prior to the race. SASCOC issued a statement declaring their full support and promising to assist in discussions with the IPC virtually the situation of blade lengths after the Games. The IPC expressed willingness to discuss the issue. Australian runner Jack Swift and USA runner Jerome Singleton, among new athletes, also expressed Keep for Pistorius’ position roughly speaking a realistic competitive advantage.
In July 2013 at the Paralympic Anniversary Games in London Oliveira became world’s fastest double amputee athlete when he completed the T43 100m race in a become old of 10.57 beating his previous LP of 10.77 which he had set in Berlin in June 2013.
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, held in Rio de Janeiro in his home country of Brazil, Oliveira unsuccessful to attain the unquestionable of either the 100m or 200m races in the T43 class. He did however win a silver medal in the T42-T47 4x100m relay as allowance of the Brazil team.