Lucas Benedito Cândido (born 19 March 1989) is a Brazilian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for Ciudad de Guadalajara and the Brazilian handball team. He won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games and competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

and 2013 and 2015 world championships.

Achievements

* Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship: **''

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

'' *South and Central American Men's Club Handball Championship: **''

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual awards and achievements

* 2016 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship: Best right wing

References

1989 births Living people Brazilian male handball players Pan American Games gold medalists in handball Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Brazil Handball players at the 2015 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Guarulhos Handball players from São Paulo (state) Brazilian expatriate handball players in Spain Liga ASOBAL players Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Esporte Clube Pinheiros sportspeople {{Brazil-handball-bio-stub