Claudinei Quirino da Silva (born November 19, 1970, in Lençóis Paulista) is a retired Brazilian sprinter who competed primarily in 200 metres.

[1] He has been successful on regional and world level, and won a 2000 Olympic silver medal with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team.

At the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Claudinei Quirino won the bronze medal in the 200 meters, with a time of 20s26; in 1999 World Championships in Athletics, in Sevilla, Spain he won silver in the 200 meters, with 20 seconds and bronze in the 4 × 100 m.[2] At the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, he won gold in the 200 meters and 4 × 100 m relay.

Still in 1999, he won gold in the final stage of the IAAF Grand Prix, in 1999, in Munich, Germany, in the 200 meters race, with a time of 19s89.

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