Hugo Parisi

Hugo Parisi
Personal information
Surname:	Hugo Pellicer Parisi
Nationality:	Brazil
Discipline (s) :	Tower / synchronized jumping
Society:	Associação Peneira Olimpica de Esportes
Birthday:	August 1, 1984
Place of birth:	Taguatinga , Federal District , Brazil
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	66 kg

Hugo Parisi (Hugo Pellicer Parisi; born August 1, 1984 in Taguatinga , Federal District ) is a Brazilian water diver . He starts in the 10 m tower and synchronized jumping.

Parisi started diving at the age of seven. He celebrated his first sporting success in 2002 when he won the silver medal from the tower at the Junior World Championship in Aachen . Two years later, he was able to qualify surprisingly for the Olympic Games in Athens , but only finished 32nd in the preliminary fight. The following year, Parisi took part in the World Cup in Montreal for the first time . In the individual from the tower he reached the semi-finals and achieved 18th place, in the 10-m synchronized jumping he was eliminated with Cassius Duran in the preliminary fight. Parisi started at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was fifth in the singles and fourth in synchronized jumping with Duran. At the World Championships in Melbourne, however, he was eliminated in both disciplines in the preliminary fight. In 2008 Parisi took part in his second Olympic Games in Beijing , but from the tower he narrowly missed the semifinals as 19th. Parisi reached the semi-finals in the individual jumping from the tower at the World Championships in Rome in 2009 and in Shanghai in 2011 and was eliminated in synchronized jumping with his new synchronous partner Rui Marinho both times after the preliminary fight. At the Pan American Games in Guadalajara , Parisi was also sixth in both tower competitions.

Web links

• official homepage
• Hugo Parisi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results overview on www.the-sports.org (English)
• Profile of Hugo Parisi at the Institute for Applied Training Science