Carlos Arthur Nuzman

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Carlos Arthur Nuzman (born 1942, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian lawyer and a former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the national team between 1962 and 1968. Nuzman was part of the first Brazilian male volleyball team at the 1964 Summer Olympics, when the sport debuted at the Olympic Games.

He was president of the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (CBV) for twenty years (1975–1995), a period where the national teams excelled at international level. Since 1995, Nuzman is the president of the Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro (COB; English: Brazilian Olympic Committee) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Pan American Sports Organisation (PASO).

Nuzman acts currently as the CO-RIO (Organising Committee for the XV Pan American Games Rio 2007) chairman after being the leader of the successful Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games.

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