Miguel Maia

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Miguel Maia
portrait
birthday April 23, 1971
place of birth Paranhos, Portugal
size 1.80 m
Indoor volleyball
societies
Académica de Espinho
SC Espinho
Sporting CP
Esmoriz GC
Reima Crema
successes
2001 - Winner Top Teams Cup
12 times Portuguese champion
9 times Portuguese cup winners
beach volleyball
partner 1994–2008 João Brenha
2009–2011 Pedro Rosas
successes
1996 - Olympic fourth
2000 - Olympic fourth
2004 - Olympic participant
8 times Portuguese champion
As of September 21, 2012

Luis Miguel Barbosa Maia (born April 23, 1971 in Paranhos ) is a former Portuguese volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

As an indoor volleyball player, Maia won the Top Teams Cup with SC Espinho in the 2000/01 season . In addition, he was 12 times champion and 9 times cup winner in his home country.

In 1994/95 Maia completed his first tournaments in the sand with his long-term partner João Brenha and achieved top ten placements at various FIVB tournaments. At the 1996 Olympic tournament , Maia / Brenha reached the semi-finals via the losers' round, which they lost to the Americans Dodd / Whitmarsh as well as the subsequent bronze match against the Canadians Child / Heese . The following year they finished 17th at the World Championships in Los Angeles . In 1998 in Ostend and 1999 in Moscow they won their first open tournaments. At the next World Cup in Marseille they were thirteenth.

A year later they narrowly missed the bronze medal again at the Olympic tournament in Sydney with a defeat against the German duo Ahmann / Hager . In 2001 they finished ninth at the World Championships in Klagenfurt and failed at the European Championships in Jesolo one round before the semi-finals against the Swiss Heyer / Egger . They reached the semi-finals at the 2003 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro , but then had to forego the last two games due to an injury.

In 2004 in Athens they took part in the Olympic Games for the third time. This time they lost to the Swiss Heuscher / Kobel in the second round . The next two world championships in 2005 in Berlin and 2007 in Gstaad they finished in 17th place. Their careers together ended after the Grand Slam in Moscow in 2008.

From 2009 to 2011 Maia competed with Pedro Rosas .

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personal data
SURNAME Maia, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbosa Maia, Luis Miguel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Paranhos