Adriana Behar
Adriana Behar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Adriana Brandão Behar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | February 14, 1969 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (age 52)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
|
Adriana Brandão Behar (born February 14, 1969, in Rio de Janeiro)[1] is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation.[2]
Behar is Jewish.[3] She moved to beach volleyball in 1993, after playing in the Brazilian women's national indoor volleyball squad. Pairing with Shelda Bede, she has won more than 30 international tournaments of beach volleyball as well as two Olympic medals.[4][5][6][7] Together, they have won more than 1,000 matches and 114 titles.[8]
Of Lebanese Jewish origin, she is the only Brazilian athlete in the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame,[9] next to universal sport legends like the American swimmer Mark Spitz[10] and the former Formula 1 pilot Jody Scheckter.[11]
See also[]
- List of notable Jewish volleyball players
References[]
- ^ "Adriana Behar profile". Beach Volleyball Database. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
- ^ Robert Wechsler, Bob Wechsler (2007). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. pg 45: KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics: with a . ISBN 9781903900871. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
- ^ Peter S Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. pg 198: SP Books. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-56171-907-5.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Robert Wechsler (2007). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. pg 206: KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Robert Wechsler (2007). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. pg 238: KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists. pg 224: Sussex Academic Press. p. 268. ISBN 1-903900-87-5.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "ADRIANA BEHAR" (in Portuguese). Confederação Brasileira de Volei. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "ADRIANA BRANDAO BEHAR". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "MARK SPITZ". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "JODY SCHECKTER". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
External links[]
- Adriana Behar at the FIVB beach volleyball players' database
- Adriana Behar at the Beach Volleyball Database
Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Brazilian women's volleyball players
- Brazilian women's beach volleyball players
- Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic beach volleyball players of Brazil
- Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
- Olympic medalists in beach volleyball
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Jewish women's volleyball players
- Brazilian Sephardi Jews
- Brazilian people of Lebanese-Jewish descent
- Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
- Volleyball players from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- BBC 100 Women
- Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- Goodwill Games medalists in beach volleyball
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople of Lebanese descent