| Ricardo Capanema | |
| Full Name: | Ricardo Esberad Capanema |
| Birth Date: | 1933 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Strokes: | Freestyle |
Ricardo Esberad Capanema (19 September 1933 – 10 May 1998) was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil.[1] [2] At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Aram Boghossian, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto.[3] At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 400-metre freestyle, not reaching the final.