Ferreira dos Santos broke a world record in the men’s 100 metres T47 and followed this up by breaking a second in the men’s 200m T47, a class not currently featured on the programme at either the Paralympics or World Para Athletics Championships.

During a meeting at the Brazilian Paralympic Training Centre in Sao Paulo, organised by the Brazilian Athletics Confederation and Brazilian Paralympic Committee, Ferreira dos Santos lowered his own world record in the men’s 100m T47 running 10.29 seconds.

Ferreira dos Santos lowered his mark from the 2019 Paralympic Athletics World Cup in Dubai, when he clocked 10.42sec.

At the same meeting, Ferreira dos Santos set a world record in the men’s 200m T47, winning in a time of 20.83.

This surpassed his own mark of 21.17, which he set in Berlin, Germany in July 2018.   

The meeting featured able-bodied and Paralympic athletes competing against each other, and in the men’s 100m T47 Ferreira dos Santos defeated Olympians Rodrigo Pereira do Nascimento and Derick de Souza da Silva, who were part of the Brazil team that won gold in the men’s 4x100m relay at the 2019 World Relays in Yokohama, Japan.

Ferreira dos Santos lost part of his left arm at the age of two during an accident with a grass milling machine.

His Paralympic medal haul features a gold in the 100m T45/46/47 at Rio 2016.

He also won two silver medals at Rio 2016, one in the 400m T45/46/47 and one in the 4x100m T42-47, as well as bronze in the men's T47 400m final during Tokyo 2020.