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VOLLEYBALL · SETTER · ARCHIVE 33

MAURÍCIOLIMA

Maurício Lima's setting connected Brazil's first Olympic champions with the team's later era of world success.

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Campinas, Brazil1968 — ∞
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01

Origin
and identity

Maurício Lima's setting connected Brazil's first Olympic champions with the team's later era of world success.

He helped Brazil win gold in Barcelona and repeated the achievement twelve years later in Athens. His five Olympic appearances span a long period of change in the international game.

Best-setter awards at the 1992 Olympics and 2002 World Championship illustrate his individual standing. An extensive club career in Brazil and Italy complemented those national-team achievements.

02

A defining
career arc

PLACES · MOMENTS · ERAS

DEFINING SCENES.
ONE LEGACY.

1
1988
OLYMPIC BEGINNING

Seoul

Made the first of five Olympic appearances.

2
1992
GOLD AND BEST SETTER

Barcelona

Helped Brazil win its first men's Olympic title.

3
2002
WORLD BEST SETTER

Argentina

Received the championship's positional award.

4
2004
SECOND OLYMPIC GOLD

Athens

Returned to the top podium twelve years after Barcelona.

03

Completed
milestones

NOT JUST RECORDS.
LANDMARKS.

012

Olympic golds

1992 and 2004.

025

Olympic appearances

1988 through 2004.

032002

World best setter

Senior men's championship.

04575

Brazil appearances

Career total recorded by the Hall of Fame.

These are completed, source-backed milestones; changing live totals are intentionally excluded.

STYLE · INFLUENCE · MEMORY

ABOVE THE NET.
BEYOND THE GAME.

Best-setter awards at the 1992 Olympics and 2002 World Championship illustrate his individual standing. An extensive club career in Brazil and Italy complemented those national-team achievements.

04

Editorial
references

EDITORIAL & REFERENCE SOURCES

FACTS WITH
A PAPER TRAIL.

01International Volleyball Hall of Fame player biography

Editorial facts and completed milestones last reviewed on October 21, 2026. This independent tribute does not imply endorsement.