Pedro Cunha

Pedro Cunha
FIVB Prague Open 2012
portrait
birthday	June 10, 1983
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
size	1.89 m
partner	2004 Rogério Ferreira 2005 Luiz Dulinski 2005–2008 Franco Neto 2008 Alison Cerutti 2009, 2011 Pedro Salgado 2010, 2016 Thiago 2011–2012 Ricardo Santos
successes
2001 - U21 World Champion 2002 - U21 Vice World Champion 2003 - U21 World Champion 2004 - Winner FIVB Open Puerto Rico 2007 - Winner FIVB Open Marseille 2007 - World Cup ninth 2008 - Winner FIVB Open Manama 2011 - Winner FIVB Grand Slam Klagenfurt 2011 - Winner FIVB Open Den Haag 2012 - Winner FIVB Open Myslowice 2012 - Winner FIVB Open Prague 2012 - Olympic fifth
(As of March 20, 2018)

Pedro Henrique de Miranda D'Araújo da Cunha (born June 10, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player .

Career

Pedro Cunha and three different partners won a medal at the U21 World Championship in beach volleyball for three consecutive years. In 2001 he won with Anselmo Sigoli, in 2002 he became vice world champion with Adriano Fonseca and in 2003 Pedro Salgado was his partner in winning the title again. In the same year Cunha played his first tournament on the FIVB World Tour with Tande Ramos in the capital of his home country. The two Brazilians finished seventeenth.

Rogério Ferreira became a partner of Cunha the following year . With him, the athlete from Rio de Janeiro took third place at the second joint tournament in Lianyungang and won an FIVB tournament as the second youngest athlete at the age of 21 and three days . At Carolina Beach in Puerto Rico, the Brazilians defeated their compatriots Luizao Correa / Harley Marques in the final . In the same season, Fred Souza and Pedro Cunha won an FIVB Challenger & Satellite event in Lausanne.

In 2005 the two-time U21 world champion first played a few tournaments with Luiz Dulinski, then at an event with Pedro Salgado, before starting a longer collaboration with Franco Neto that same year . The two reached the semi-finals in Montréal and the final in Acspulco. In 2006 they won silver medals in Shanghai and Stare Jablonki and bronze in Espinho, Marseille, Montréal and Vitória. The two South Americans achieved their first and only joint victory the following year in Marseille, then they finished ninth at the World Championships in Gstaad , before that they finished second in three consecutive events in Manama, Espinho and Paris. In 2008 Franco and Cunha finished third again in China, in Berlin their collaboration ended in seventeenth place. The athlete from Rio then played with Alison Cerutti . The two won their second tournament in Manama. At the last event of the year in Sanya, Pedro Cunha won the silver medal with Roberto Pitta.

In 2009 the two U21 world champions from 2003 formed a duo and finished ninth in Brasilia. They then lost to their compatriots Alison / Harley in the final in Shanghai and to the Germans Brink / Reckermann in the final in Rome . At the following event in Myslowice, Cunha / Pedro took fifth place. At the World Championships in Stavanger , the two South Americans had to end the tournament due to an injury and the season was also over for Pedro Cunha.

2010

With Thiago Santos Barbosa , Cunha reached fourth place at the first event of the year in Brasilia , which was also her best result of the season. In Rome , Stavanger and in Gstaad they finished fifth and in Prague they finished in seventh place. There were also ninth places in Myslovice and Klagenfurt, and the two Brazilians came thirteenth in Shanghai and twenty-fifth in Stare Jablonki.

2011

At the first four events of the year Salgado and Cunha formed a beach duo, the best result was fourth place in Prague . Since MAZURI Grand Slam play Ricardo Santos and Cunha together, the two occupied in Stare Jablonki fifth. The new duo won the following tournament in Austria , with Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann defeated in the final. After a seventeenth place in Finland, Ricardo and Cunha won their second joint gold medal in The Hague . In the final they won over the Dutch Numbersdor / Schuil .

2012

With Ricardo, Cunha won the bronze medal in Brasilia , then the duo won the tournament in Myslowice . After two ninth places in China, the Brazilians achieved their second win of the season in Prague . They won the small final in the capital of Russia . A ninth place in Rome was followed by fifth place in the Alpine republics of Switzerland and Austria and at the Olympic Games in London . Then Pedro Cunha ended his international career.

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Pedro Cunha in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brazilian Pedro Cunha retires. beach-volleyball.de, February 18, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2018 .