Evandro Gonçalves de Oliveira Junior (born 17 July 1990) is a Brazilian
beach volleyball
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player.
Oliveira competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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in the
men's beach volleyball tournament along with his partner
Pedro Solberg, falling in the quarterfinals. In 2017, he became world champion along with his partner
André Stein, after winning the
2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships in
Vienna
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, Austria.
Oliveira represented Brazil at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
with
Bruno Oscar Schmidt, coming in 9th.
References
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Evandroat ''
Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol''
1990 births
Living people
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
Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Brazilian sportsmen
Beach volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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