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Alex Pires da Silva

Brazilian Paralympic athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ108415069 ↗
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Alex Douglas Pires da Silva (born 7 May 1990) was a Brazilian silver medalist in Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's marathon T46. He is a past winner of the 2017 London Marathon for T46 athletes. He has a congenital limb deficiency.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Pires da Silva” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.