Career
Almeida is a resident athlete for Amadora Swimming Club in Lisbon (Portuguese: Clube de Natação da Amadora), and is coached and trained by Filipe Coelho. Almeida made his official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men"s 200 m breaststroke. He cleared a FINA B-cut of 2:15.00 from the Dutch Open in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Almeida blasted a 2:15 barrier and a new Portuguese record of 2:13.34 to top the second heat, but he finished only in thirty-second overall from the preliminaries.
He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including fellow two-time Olympian Martin Liivamägi of Estonia. He raced to third place by two tenths of a second (020) behind Greece"s Panagiotis Samilidis in 1:01.40.
Almeida failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall out of 44 swimmers on the first day of preliminaries. Almeida also became the first swimmer in his school"s history to claim a 200 m breaststroke title at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Championships in Federal Way, Washington.
He blasted a time of 1:51.88 to match former Olympic silver medalist Editor Moses for the fourth-fastest all time in collegiate history.
