Carlos Arturo Tejeda Rivera (born July 28, 1980) is a

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player from

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, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the

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playing as a wing-spiker. In the final his team defeated

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3-0 (25-23, 25–18, 25-20). He won with his team the gold medal at the

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. He was born in

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, Venezuela.

Awards

National Team

* Junior World Championship 1999 Thailand 4 Places

Senior Team

* American Cup Brazil 2000 5 Places * World League 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 *

, - Gold Medal * World Championship 2002 Argentina 9 Places * Center American and Caribbeans Games El Salvador 2002 3 Places * Pan Americans Games Santo Domingo 2003 Gold Medal * American Cup Brazil 2005 5 Places *

, - Gold Medal * World Championship Japan 2006 * Pan Americans Games Brazil 2007 4 Places * World Cup Japan 2007 * Olympic Games Beijing 2008 China 9 Places * Center American and Caribbeans Games Puerto Rico 2010 3 Places * World Championship Italy 2010 12 Places

Foreign Leagues

* Obras Sanitarias San Juan Argentina 2000 - 2001 * Obras Sanitarias San Juan Argentina 2001 - 2002 * Intempo Abanilla Spain 2003 - 2004 * Unicaja Almeria Spain 2005 - 2006 * Reima Crema Italy 2006 - 2007 * AEK Athens Greece 2007 * Al Arabic Qatar 2008 * Maliye Millipiango Turkey 2008 - 2009 * LIG Korea 2009 - 2010 * Al Rayan Qatar 2010 - 2011 * Havash Gombad Iran 2011 - 2012 * Najama Bahrain 2013 * Zahra Lebanon 2014 - 2015 * Obras UDAP San Juan Argentina 2016 * Linares Chile 2017 * Wady Musa Jordan 2017 - 2018

References

External links

FIVB Profile
1980 births Living people Venezuelan men's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Venezuela Volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Venezuela People from Anzoátegui Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games 20th-century Venezuelan people 21st-century Venezuelan people {{Venezuela-volleyball-bio-stub