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Athos Schwantes

Brazilian fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1392410 ↗
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Athos Marangon Schwantes (born 13 February 1985) is a Brazilian fencer.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's épée, but was defeated in the first round. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he beat Czech Jiří Beran in the first round, but lost in the second round to the French Gauthier Grumier, who was the first seed.

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This entry incorporates text from “Athos Schwantes” 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.