Miguel Maia

As of September 21, 2012

Luis Miguel Barbosa Maia ( born April 23, 1971 in Paranhos ) is a former Portuguese volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career

As Hall volleyball Maia won in the 2000/ 01 season with the SC Espinho the Top Teams Cup. In addition, he was twelve time champion and nine times Cup winners in his homeland.

In the sand Maia graduated in 1994/95 his first tournaments with his longtime partner João Carlos Alves Pereira Brenha and managed at various FIVB tournaments top ten rankings. In the Olympic tournament in 1996 Maia / Brenha reached the semi-finals of the loser's bracket, they lost to the Americans Dodd / Whitmarsh as well as the subsequent match for the bronze medal against the Canadian Child / Heese. The following year they finished 17th at the World Championships in Los Angeles. 1998 in Ostend and 1999 in Moscow, she won her first Open tournaments. At the next World Cup in Marseille they were Thirteenth.

A year later, she missed the Olympic tournament in Sydney with a defeat against the German duo Ahmann / Hager again just the bronze medal. 2001, they were ninth of the World Cup in Klagenfurt and failed at the European Championships in Jesolo a round before the semi-finals of the Swiss Heyer / Egger. At the World Cup in 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, they reached the semi-finals, but then had to do without because of an injury on the last two games.

Athens 2004 she took part in the Olympic Games for the third time. This time they lost in the second round of the Swiss Heuscher / Kobel. The next two world championships in Berlin in 2005 and 2007 in Gstaad, they finished in 17th place, respectively. After the Grand Slam in Moscow 2008 ended their joint career.

From 2009 to 2011 Maia went with Pedro Rosas at the start.