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carlos arthur nuzman<br />

Brazilian Olympic Committee<br />

President<br />

An attorney at law, he is the<br />

president of the BOC (Brazilian<br />

Olympic Committee); president of<br />

Rio 2016 TM Olympic and Paralympic<br />

Organizing Committees, president<br />

of ODESUR (South American<br />

Sports Organization), member of<br />

the Executive Committee of<br />

ODEPA (Pan American Sports<br />

Organization) and member of the<br />

IOC (International Olympic<br />

Committee) in the latter he<br />

integrates the International<br />

Relations Commission.<br />

at Boc<br />

President since June of 1995, he led<br />

the Candidacy Committee that<br />

won the right to organize the Rio<br />

2016 Olympic and Paralympic<br />

Games and presently presides the<br />

Rio 2016TM Organizing Committee.<br />

He has presided over the Rio 2007<br />

Pan American and Parapan<br />

American Games Organizing<br />

Committee, the XII ANOC<br />

Organizing Committee and the IOC<br />

Executive Committee Meeting in<br />

May of 2000, in Rio de Janeiro. He<br />

led the Brazilian delegations that<br />

participated in the Atlanta 1996,<br />

Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and<br />

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He<br />

also presided over the organization<br />

of the South American Games held<br />

in Brazil in 2002 at a record time of<br />

three months to organize the<br />

event. In 2007 he was elected to<br />

join the Volleyball Hall of Fame.<br />

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BeFore Boc<br />

He was president of the Brazilian Volleyball<br />

Federation from 1975 to January of 1997.<br />

During his presidency the men’s volleyball<br />

team won the gold medal at the Barcelona<br />

1992 Olympic Games and the silver medal<br />

at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.<br />

The women’s team won the gold and the<br />

silver medals in the beach volleyball and<br />

the bronze medal in the indoor volleyball<br />

in Atlanta 1996. Other titles include: World<br />

League Champion (93); four times<br />

champion at the World Youth Games (89 to<br />

95) and two times champion of the World<br />

Grand Prix (94 and 96). He brought to Brazil<br />

the Men’s (90) and the Women’s (94) World<br />

Volleyball and Beach Volleyball<br />

Championships. He was part of the<br />

volleyball team from 1957 to 1972 and was<br />

a member of the Olympic National Team in<br />

1962 and 1968 and participated in the<br />

Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games and the World<br />

Championships at the former URSS (62) and<br />

at the former Czechoslovakia (66).

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