Jefferson Bellaguarda

Jefferson Bellaguarda
portrait
birthday	September 12, 1976
place of birth	Salvador da Bahia , Brazil
size	1.93 m
partner	Patrick Heuscher
World ranking	Position 5 (2011)
successes
2009 - 3rd place Grand Slam Moscow 2009 - Swiss Champion 2010 - Swiss Champion 2011 - 3rd place Grand Slam Beijing 2011 - 2nd place Grand Slam Moscow 2012 - 9th place Olympic Games London
(As of September 27, 2012)

Jefferson Bellaguarda (born September 12, 1976 in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ) is a former beach volleyball player.

Career

Jefferson Bellaguarda already played successfully for Brazil on the FIVB World Tour in the years 2000–2003 , in 2000/01 together with Paulão and in 2002/03 he formed a duo with Dultra Jr. Since his marriage to a Swiss woman, Bellaguarda has lived and was in Switzerland temporarily only active on the national beach volleyball tour due to the lack of playing authorization.

In 2009 Bellaguarda, now playing for Switzerland, formed a Swiss national team with Martin Laciga . Shortly after the formation of this duo, Laciga / Bellaguarda were able to record considerable success on the FIVB World Tour . At the end of 2010, Bellaguarda and Laciga separated. Jefferson Bellaguarda then tackled the Olympic Games 2012 goal together with Patrick Heuscher as the nominally strongest Swiss duo . In August 2011 Heuscher / Bellaguarda reached fourth place at the European Championships in Kristiansand .

In 2012 he finished after a ninth place at the XXX. Olympic Summer Games in London his professional sports career .

Web links

• Website of the Heuscher-Bellaguarda duo. (Archive version 2013)
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• FIVB World Ranking List 2011 (English)
• Jefferson Bellaguarda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in the NZZ of September 27, 2012 on retiring from professional sport