With his father's transfer to Rio de Janeiro, Breno went swimming in the Clube dos Aliados with Professor Paulo Machado.

[2] At the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Hangzhou, China, Correia, along with Marcelo Chierighini, Matheus Santana and César Cielo, won the bronze medal in the Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, with a time of 3:05.15, setting a South American record.

[9] Brazil's young 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay team, now with João de Lucca instead of Leonardo Coelho Santos, lowered the South American record in almost 3 seconds, with a time of 7:07.12, at heats.

[22] At the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, the Brazilian relay, composed by Correia, Murilo Sartori, Kaique Alves and Fernando Scheffer, again obtained a medal, now bronze, maintaining the good performance of 2018, when Brazil won the gold beating the world record.

[23][24][25] At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary, in the Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event, the Brazilian team, composed by Correia, Fernando Scheffer, Vinicius Assunção and Murilo Sartori, broke the South American record twice in a row, in the heats, and the finals, reaching a time of 7:04.69 and obtaining an unprecedented fourth place in the long-distance World Championships.