Alison dos Santos
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2000 (23 years old)
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São Joaquim da Barra, São Paulo, BrazilPosition
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Alison Brendom Alves dos Santos (born 3 June 2000) is a Brazilian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. He is a bronze medalist at the 2020 Olympic Games and is the 3rd fastest athlete in the history of the event, in addition to being a finalist in the 2019 World Championships, a gold medalist in the 2019 Pan American Games and is currently the South American record holder in the competition.
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Early life
As a 10-month-old, a domestic accident left him with third-degree oil burns on his head and characteristic scars.
He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World U20 Championships.
At just 19 years old, he participated in the 2019 Pan American Games, held in Lima, Peru, where he won the 400m hurdles event, breaking his personal record, and the South American under-20 record, with the time of 48.45. It was the 4th best time in the world at the moment, and with that, he qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020. He had already won gold in the same event, at the 2019 Summer University, weeks before.
In September 2019, he went to the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, where he won the 400m hurdles semifinal in 48.35, breaking his personal record again and going to the final with the second best overall time. The last time a Brazilian had reached the final of this event in the Worlds was with Eronilde Araújo, in 1999. In the final, he broke his personal record again, finishing in 7th place, with the time of 48.28. He was just 0.25s from the bronze medalist.
In April 2021, he broke his Brazilian record with a time of 48.15, in Des Moines, USA. On 9 May 2021, he broke the South American record that belonged since 2005 to Panama's athlete Bayano Al Kamani (47.84). Alison dos Santos obtained the 47.68 mark in the Mt.Sac stage of the Continental Athletics Tour, in California (USA). On 28 May 2021, he broke the South American record again with a time of 47.57, in Doha, Qatar, participating in the Diamond League. This time placed Alison as 3rd in the world ranking. He even topped the list in April. The time of 47.57 already placed him as 22nd best runner in the race of all time.
On 1 July 2021, in the Oslo stage of the Diamond League, he again lowered his South American record, with a time of 47.38. This time placed him, at the moment, as the 15th best runner in the history of the race. He improved this record with 47.34, three days later, winning in Stockholm Diamond League.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Alison qualified for the final of the 400 metres hurdles, breaking the South American record with a time of 47.31. In the final, he got the bronze medal, breaking the South American record by a large margin, with a time of 46.72 (he lowered his time by 0.6 seconds). Both he, Warholm and Benjamin surprisingly lowered their times: Warholm lowered the world record by almost 0.8 seconds (45.94) and Benjamin beat the Americas record also by 0.8 seconds (46.17). The event was the strongest in 400m hurdles history, with the three Olympic medalists getting the three best times in the history of the event, all beating Kevin Young's old world record (which had lasted almost 30 years and had only fallen a month before the Olympics). Alison became the 3rd best in the history of the race, at just 21 years old.
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