Amaury Pasos
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| Full name | Amaury Antônio Pasos | |
| birthday | December 11, 1935 | |
| place of birth | São Paulo , Brazil | |
| size | 191 cm | |
| position | Power forward | |
| Clubs as active | ||
1951–1958 Clube de Regatas Tietê 1958–1968 CR Sírio 1968–1972 Corinthians São Paulo
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Amaury Antônio Pasos (born December 11, 1935 in São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian basketball player. Born in Brazil as the son of Argentines , he grew up in Buenos Aires and was the Argentine youth champion in swimming over 400m freestyle at the age of eleven , before joining a basketball club for the first time in 1950. In 1951 he returned to his native Brazil.
In basketball world championships he won two gold medals as well as a silver and a bronze medal, where he was voted the most valuable player of the tournament in 1959 . He also took part in the Olympic Games three times, winning two bronze medals ( 1960 , 1964 ). In 2007 he was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame .
After the end of his active career, Pasos ran an underwear factory that his father had founded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Almanaque Abril (2000): Quem é Quem na História do Brasil. São Paulo (Abril Multimídia).
- ↑ Statistics of the World Cup records ( memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at fiba.com
Web links
- FIBA Hall of Fame portrait On: FIBA website; Mies, CH, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- Amaury Pasos - Portrait of the Brazilian Basketball Federation (Portuguese) ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Amaury in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pasos, Amaury |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pasos, Amaury Antônio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |