Carmo de Souza (19 July 1940 – 22 December 2008),[1] commonly known as "Rosa Branca" ("White Rose"), was a Brazilian basketball player with the Brazil national basketball team. De Souza competed with Brazil at the 1959, 1963 and 1970 FIBA World Championships and won two bronze medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Araraquara.[2]
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| Born | 19 July 1940 Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 December 2008 (aged 68) São Paulo, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals
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References
edit- ^ Rosa Branca at Olympedia
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rosa Branca". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
Full name: Carmo "Rosa Branca" de Souza
External links
edit- Carmo de Souza at FIBA (also at FIBA Archive)
- Carmo de Souza at Olympics.com
- Rosa Branca at the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (in Portuguese)
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