Career
Passos qualified as a lone wrestler for the Portuguese squad in the men"s 60 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he finished twenty-eighth from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegrobut managed to fill up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling through a tripartite invitation. Passos lost his opening match to Romania"s Eusebiu Diaconu on technical superiority, and was wretchedly pinned by United States. wrestler and two-time Olympian Jim Gruenwald with only nineteen seconds left in time, leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing penultimate out of 22 wrestlers in the final standings.