Maciel Santos
Santos in May 2025 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Maciel de Sousa Santos |
| Born | 5 September 1985 Crateús, Ceará, Brazil |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boccia |
| Disability class | BC2 |
Medal record | |
Maciel de Sousa Santos (born 5 September 1985) is a Brazilian boccia player.
Santos started playing boccia at the age of eleven and was already competing internationally at fourteen. He trains daily for six to eight hours. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, he won the gold medal by defeating Yan Zhiqiang in the Individual BC2 event. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won the bronze medal in the same event.