Marcelo Teles Negrão (born 10 October 1972) is a Brazilian former
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
player
[ ] who was a member of the
Brazil men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...
in
Barcelona
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by defeating the Netherlands in the final.
Negrão also competed at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in Atlanta.
He played
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each 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 o ...
.
Individual awards
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1992 FIVB World League "Best Spiker"''
* ''
1994 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship "Best Server"''
* ''1992 Olympics "MVP"''
Clubs
* Banespa (1990)
* Telesp S. Paolo (1994)
References
External links
*
Volleybox.net profile*
*
1972 births
Living people
Brazilian men's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players for Brazil
Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
Volleyball players from São Paulo
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games silver medalists in volleyball
Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
Opposite hitters
Brazilian expatriate volleyball players in Italy
Brazilian expatriate volleyball players in Japan
Brazilian men's beach volleyball players
20th-century Brazilian sportsmen
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