Carlos Arturo Tejeda Rivera (born July 28, 1980)[1] is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic playing as a wing-spiker. In the final his team defeated Cuba 3-0 (25-23, 25–18, 25-20).
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| Full name | Carlos Arturo Tejeda Rivera | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 July 1980[1] Distrito Capital, Caracas, Venezuela | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Spike | 365 cm (144 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Block | 348 cm (137 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Honours
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He won with his team the gold medal at the 2005 Bolivarian Games.[2]
Awards
National Team
- Junior World Championship 1999 Thailand 4 Places
Senior Team
- American Cup Brazil 2000 5 Places
- World League 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008
- 2005 Bolivarian Games, -
Gold Medal - World Championship 2002 Argentina 9 Places
- Center American and Caribbeans Games El Salvador 2002 3 Places
- Pan Americans Games Santo Domingo 2003 Gold Medal
- American Cup Brazil 2005 5 Places
- 2005 Bolivarian Games, - Gold Medal
- World Championship Japan 2006
- Pan Americans Games Brazil 2007 4 Places
- World Cup Japan 2007
- Olympic Games Beijing 2008 China 9 Places
- Center American and Caribbeans Games Puerto Rico 2010 3 Places
- World Championship Italy 2010 12 Places
Foreign Leagues
- Obras Sanitarias San Juan Argentina 2000 - 2001
- Obras Sanitarias San Juan Argentina 2001 - 2002
- Intempo Abanilla Spain 2003 - 2004
- Unicaja Almeria Spain 2005 - 2006
- Reima Crema Italy 2006 - 2007
- AEK Athens Greece 2007
- Al Arabic Qatar 2008
- Maliye Millipiango Turkey 2008 - 2009
- LIG Korea 2009 - 2010
- Al Rayan Qatar 2010 - 2011
- Havash Gombad Iran 2011 - 2012
- Najama Bahrain 2013
- Zahra Lebanon 2014 - 2015
- Obras UDAP San Juan Argentina 2016
- Linares Chile 2017
- Wady Musa Jordan 2017 - 2018