[1] At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 100-metre and the 4×200-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals.

[1] In September 1956, two weekends in a row, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Haroldo Lara broke and repeated the Brazilian record of 100-metre freestyle, with a time of 57.8 seconds.

[2] At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he swam the 100-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals.

[1] Haroldo Lara was the greatest swimmer sprinter of Brazil in the second half of the 50s, until 1957, when he dropped the swimming, moved to Italy and became an opera singer.

[3] Haroldo Lara died on 6 January 2015, due to complications from a stroke.