Maurício Lima

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Maurício Lima
Maurício Lima
Competitor for Flag of Brazil Brazil
Men’s Volleyball
Olympic Games
Gold 1992 Barcelona Team Competition
Gold 2004 Athens Team Competition
World Cup
Gold 2003 Japan Team

Maurício Lima (born November 27, 1968 in Campinas) is a retired volleyball player from Brazil, who participated in both Olympic gold medals of the Brazil men's national volleyball team (the only other player in both was Giovane Gavio), against The Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain and against Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece

Lima and Italy's Andrea Giani were the only volleyball players who made their fifth Olympic appearance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Their parallel Olympic careers began at the 1988 Seoul Games.

He also won 5 Volleyball World Leagues (1993, 2001, 2003 and 2004), the 2002 FIVB Men's World Championship and the 2003 FIVB Men's World Cup.

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