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Haroldo de Melo Lara (born June 9 1934 in Santos) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil who participated in two Summer Olympics for his native country.At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki he swam the 100-metre and the 4×200-metre freestyle not reaching the finals.On 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.