Bernard Rajzman (born April 25, 1957) is a former

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ian

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player. He was born in

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. He was enshrined in the

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in 2005. Nowadays, Bernard is a member of the

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(IOC). Rajzman began his sports career at the age of 11, playing

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for

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, but traded the sport for volleyball because he was too short. At the age of 17 he entered the

Brazil men's national volleyball team The Brazil men's national volleyball team is governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol ''( Brazilian Volleyball Confederation)'' and takes part in international volleyball competitions. Brazil has three gold medals at the Olympic Game ...

, for which he played in three

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, winning a silver medal in Los Angeles 1984. He also won seven

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, one gold medal at the

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, silver in the

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and bronze in the 1981 Volleyball World Cup. He developed the "Star Trek" serve, adapted from the

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 ...

, in which the ball is hit from below with enough force that it sails dozens of feet over the court. Rajzman is the president of Brazil's National Commission of Athletes, and a state congressman. Bernard Rajzman became an IOC member at the

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in September 2013. He is the father of professional surfer

Phil Rajzman Phil Rajzman (born Philip Wollens Rajzman on 27 June 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian professional surfer and two time World Surf League (WSL) world champion. As a disciple of one of the pioneers in Brazilian surfing, Rico de Souza, Raj ...

and Bianca Rajzman.

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