Bruno Lins Tenório de Barros (born 7 January 1987) is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.
Biography Barros was born in Maceió and resides in São Bernardo do Campo. He represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay together with José Carlos Moreira, Vicente de Lima and Sandro Viana. In their qualification heat they placed fourth behind Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands. Their time of 39.01 was the seventh out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.24 seconds, the fourth time after the Jamaican, Trinidad and Japanese teams. He also took part in the 200 metres individual, finishing fifth with a time of 21.15 seconds in his first round heat, which was not enough to qualify for the second round.
His personal best time is 20.47, achieved in February 2008 in São Paulo. He also has 10.22 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in March 2008 in São Paulo.
In 2009, he was suspended by the IAAF for 2 years for a doping offence involving the drug rh-EPO.Doping Rule Violations. IAAF (19 October 2009). Retrieved on 20 March 2010.
He represented Brazil in the 1st Lusophone Games that took place in Macau, China in 2006; in the 2nd Lusophony Games in Lisbon, Portugal; and also in the 2012 Summer Olympics, again in both the 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay.
Barros would retroactively be awarded the bronze medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics following the demotion in 2017 of the Jamaican team for Nesta Carter's failed anti-doping test.
Personal bests 100 m: 10.16 (wind: +1.8 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 21 March 2009 200 m: 20.16 (wind: +1.1 m/s) – São Paulo, Brazil, 7 August 2011
International competitions Representing 2004South American Youth ChampionshipsGuayaquil, Ecuador1st4 × 100 m relay42.42 s2006Lusophony GamesMacau, China1st200 m21.56 (wind: +0.2 m/s)South American U-23 ChampionshipsBuenos Aires, Argentina6th200 m21.20 w (wind: +2.3 m/s)2nd4 × 100 m relay40.152008Ibero-American ChampionshipsIquique, Chile2nd200 m20.95 (wind: -0.5 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.96Olympic GamesBeijing, China5th (h)200 m21.15 (wind: -1.1 m/s)3rd4 × 100 m relay38.24South American U-23 ChampionshipsLima, Peru2nd100 m10.70 A (wind: -2.0 m/s)1st200 m21.13 A (wind: -1.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay40.061st4 × 400 m relay3:09.022009South American ChampionshipsLima, Peru –200 mDQLusophony GamesLisbon, Portugal –200 mDQ –4 × 100 m relayDQ2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea6th200 m20.31 (wind: +0.8 m/s) –4 × 100 m relayDQPan American GamesGuadalajara, Mexico3rd200 m20.45 A (wind: -1.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.18 A2012Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom6th (sf)200 m20.55 (wind: -0.5 m/s)4th (h)4 × 100 m relay38.352013South American ChampionshipsCartagena, Colombia2nd100 m10.33 (wind: +1.3 m/s)World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia19th (h)200 m20.60 (wind: +0.0 m/s)2014South American GamesSantiago, Chile4th200 m20.77 (wind: -1.0 m/s)1st4 × 100 m relay38.902015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China26th (h)200 m20.42—4 × 100 m relayDNF2016Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil43rd (h)200 m20.596th4 × 100 m relay38.412017IAAF World RelaysNassau, Bahamas –4 × 100 m relayDQSouth American ChampionshipsAsunción, Paraguay2nd100 m10.221st (h)200 m20.4111st4 × 100 m relay39.472nd4 × 400 m relay3:07.32 1Did not start in the final
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