Carolina Solberg Salgado (born 6 August 1987) is a Brazilian
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
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 represented Brazil in
beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Her elder sister is also a successful beach volleyball player, as was their mother
Isabel
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in past years.
Salgado is married to art director Fernando Young, co-winner of the 2013
Latin Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
Opposition to Jair Bolsonaro
In 2020, Salgado was punished by the Brazilian Superior Court of Sports Justice (''Superior Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva'') for shouting "
Bolsonaro, out!" during a live interview. She was fined 100,000 reais and was suspended for 6 games. She protested the punishment and in a second trial she was absolved of all charges. The Brazilian Volleyball Confederation accused her of “staining the sport”, even though many other volleyball players have consistently showed support for Bolsonaro without any repercussions or reprimands.
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1987 births
Living people
Brazilian women's volleyball players
Brazilian women's beach volleyball players
Olympic beach volleyball players for Brazil
Beach volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Brazilian people of German descent
Volleyball players from Rio de Janeiro (city)
21st-century Brazilian sportswomen
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