Pedro Salgado Collett Solberg (born 27 March 1986) is a Brazilian male

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player. Solberg's mother, Isabel Salgado, was herself a successful beach volleyball player who in 1994 won a FIVB World Tour event in

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. His sisters Maria Clara Salgado and

Carolina Solberg Salgado Carolina Solberg Salgado (born 6 August 1987) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She won a gold medal in the 2004 FIVB Under-18 World Championship and again in the Under-21 World Championship in 2005. With Bárbara Seixas, she represen ...

are also beach volleyball players who have played since 2005.

Career

Solberg won the U18 World Championship with three different partners in 2002 and U21 in 2003 and 2006 in beach volleyball. In

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he started with Roberto Lopes at several FIVB World Tour tournaments with fourth place being his best result. In the following two years Pedro Solberg together with his new partner

Harley Marques Harley Marques Silva (born 6 July 1974) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. Team Harley – Pedro, was placed as #5 on the international Olympic ranking for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did not qualify because of the two teams per country ...

won nine tournament victories in the 2008 FIVB World Tour, and were voted "Team of the Year". In the 2009 season Solberg played with different partners. He started with his first partner in an FIVB World Tour tournament Pedro Cunha where he won two silver medals, while with

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he won the Polish Open in

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. Two fourth places with Ricardo Santos marked the end of the year.

2010

After a fifth place with Santos in the

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Open, he decided to have another collaboration with Marques, his partner in the successful 2007 and 2008 years. They won the next tournament in

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, but in subsequent events could only muster one other place at the front of the field: fifth place at the Grand Slam in

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. After two ninth place finishes in

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and

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, a seventeenth place in Klagenfurt and another fifth place in Stare Jablonki, Solberg/Marques won the silver medal in

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. They defeated their compatriots including Insfran/

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and

Emanuel Rego Emanuel Fernando Sheffer Rego (born 15 April 1973) is a Brazilian male former beach volleyball player who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. Rego partnered with José Loiola at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, t ...

Alison Cerutti Alison Conte Cerutti (born 7 December 1985), known as Alison Cerutti or simply Alison, is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. He plays as a blocker. In 2011, along with Emanuel Rego he won the Swatch FIVB World Tour in Prague, Czech Republic. ...

, but lost the final against the Americans

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. At the end of the season Solberg/Marques still reached ninth place in

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and

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2011

In the first four events of the year, Solberg began playing with Cunha, and their best finish was fourth place in

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. With his new partner Rhooney Ferramenta, he reached fifth place in the fifth event of the season, including the

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. In Stavanger, the two Brazilians ranked 25th, and were ninth in Gstaad. Solberg was then removed because of a doping suspicion. The suspension was provisionally lifted in mid-August because of a delay in testing that was not the fault of the athlete. In October, the

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closed the doping charges after concluding that "there is no evidence of an anti-doping rule violation". In

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, he won the bronze medal with Ferramenta in the final event of the season.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solberg, Pedro 1986 births Living people Beach volleyball blockers Brazilian men's beach volleyball players Volleyball players from Rio de Janeiro (city) Olympic beach volleyball players for Brazil Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen