Carolina Solberg Salgado

Carolina Salgado
2017 at the World Cup in Vienna
portrait
birthday	August 6, 1987
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
size	1.78 m
partner	2003–2015 Maria Clara Salgado 2016 Ágatha Bednarczuk 2017 Juliana Felisberta da Silva 2017–2019 Maria Antonelli since 2019 Maria Clara Salgado
World ranking	Position 6
successes
2003 - U18 Vice World Champion 2003 - Third U21 World Championship 2004 - U18 Vice World Champion 2004 - U21 World Champion 2005 - U21 World Champion 2008 - Winner Open Mysłowice 2011 - Second Open Québec 2013 - Second Grand Slam Den Haag 2013 - Second Grand Slam Long Beach 2013 - Winner Grand Slam Moscow 2017 - Winner 3-Star Den Haag 2017 - World Cup Fifth Vienna 2018 - Second 4-Star Den Haag 2018 - Second 4-Star Huntington Beach 2018 - Second 4-Star Espinho 2018 - Fourth World Tour Final Hamburg 2019 - Second 5-star Gstaad 2019 - Second 5-star Vienna
(As of November 7, 2019)

Carolina Salgado Solberg (born August 6, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player .

Career

Carol played beach volleyball for the first time when she was nine in her mother's class, Isabel Salgado . After a few years as an indoor volleyball player at Flamengo , Maria Clara's younger sister started at the U18 World Championships for the first time in 2002 and took fourth place with her partner Isabel Grael, with Bárbara Seixas she won the silver medal in the following two years. With her sister, Carolina Salgado achieved bronze at the U21 World Championships in 2003, the following year the two Brazilians played their first FIVB World tournament, but failed in qualifying. Also in 2004, Carol won the gold medal with Taiana Lima at the U21 World Championships, a success that they both repeated in 2005. This makes Carolina Salgado the most successful junior of all time at the FIVB World Championships for under twenty-one year olds.

In the years 2004 to 2007 the Salgado sisters, who from then on always competed together in adult tournaments, achieved their best result in the World Tour at the South African Open in Cape Town in 2005. They achieved the bronze rank and were the first daughters of a winner of an FIVB World Tour Medal that also reached the podium.

The 2008 season was the most successful for Carol and Maria Clara. In addition to two fourth and fifth places each, the two Brazilians won bronze medals in Stare Jabłonki , Marseille and Dubai . The sisters achieved their first tour victory in Mysłowice in Poland when, after successes in the losing round against their compatriots Shelda Bede / Ana Paula Henkel and Maria Antonelli / Vanilda Leao in the semifinals, they won the Norwegians Nila Ann Håkedal / Ingrid Tørlen and in the subsequent final the Germans Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler were able to defeat. The sisters were not quite as successful in the following year, only in Shanghai the two achieved third place.

In the first tournament in 2010 in the capital of their home country , the Salgado sisters reached the round of the last four, after a defeat against the German Goller / Ludwig they were able to defeat the reigning world champions Kessy / Ross in the game for third place . At the following two tournaments, Carol and Maria Clara failed to rank among the top eight teams, in Seoul the two South Americans finished in seventh place after another defeat by Goller / Ludwig, in Moscow the sisters lost the quarter-finals to theirs as in Gstaad Countrywomen Larissa and Juliana . After three tournaments without a top eight placement, the Salgado sisters in Kristiansand reached the semi-finals for the second time in the current season, which they lost to Larissa and Juliana. As in Brasilia, Carol and Maria Clara were able to win the small final against Kessy / Ross and secure the bronze medal. In the last two tournaments in 2010, the Brazilian sisters made it to the semi-finals. While it was only enough for fourth place in China , the South Americans in Thailand took third place for the third time this season.

At the 2011 World Championships in Rome , Maria Clara / Carol finished ninth. In 2012, Carol took a baby break. At the 2013 World Cup in Stare Jabłonki, Maria Clara / Carol reached the main round as group winners, where they were eliminated against the Slovaks Dubovcová / Nestarcová . On the other hand, the sisters had numerous top ten results on the World Tour , including second places in The Hague and Long Beach and victory in Moscow. The best results on the 2014 World Tour were second places at the Grand Slams in The Hague and São Paulo . In 2015 Maria Clara and Carol did not get past their fifth place at the Major tournament in Stavanger .

After the second baby break in 2016, Carol initially played mainly on the national tour with Ágatha Bednarczuk and Juliana Felisberta da Silva . From June 2017 she played on the World Tour alongside Maria Antonelli . The two Brazilians won the event in The Hague after finishing fifth in Moscow. They achieved the same placement at the 2017 World Cup in Vienna . In 2018 there were several fourth and fifth places at the events of the World Tour for the two South Americans. The highlights were the second places at the 4-star tournaments in The Hague, Huntington Beach and Espinho as well as the fourth place at the tour finals in Hamburg . Maria Antonelli / Carol achieved the best placements on the World Tour 2019 when they reached the finals at the 5-star tournaments in Gstaad and Vienna.

Since November 2019 Carol has been playing again with her sister Maria Clara.

family

Carol is the mother of two sons: José (* 2012) and Salvador (* 2016). Carol's mother Isabel Salgado won an FIVB tournament in Miami in 1994 . Brother Pedro has won more than ten tournaments and was voted FIVB Tour Champion and Team of the Year in 2008 with his partner. In addition to Pedro and beach partner Maria Clara, there are three other siblings, Bernardo, Pilar and Celina.

Web links

Commons : Carolina Solberg Salgado  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of November 4, 2019)
2. ^ Keeping up with the Salgados. FIVB , April 17, 2018, accessed on June 21, 2019 .