Márcio Henrique Barroso Araújo (born 12 October 1973 in

Fortaleza Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...

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) is a male

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player from

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. He won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the

2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships These page shows the results of the Beach Volleyball World Championships, held 21–26 June 2005 in Berlin, Germany. It was the fifth official edition of this event, after ten unofficial championships (1987–1996) all held in Rio de Janeiro. Men' ...

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, partnering

Fábio Luiz Magalhães Fábio Luiz de Jesus Magalhães (; born 13 March 1979 in Marataízes) is a male beach volleyball player from Brazil. Magalhães won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, G ...

. Araújo represented his native country at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, after having claimed the bronze medal alongside

Benjamin Insfran Benjamin Insfran (born 14 April 1972 in Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a male beach volleyball player from Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both ...

at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in

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