Carlos Tejeda

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tejada and the second or maternal family name is Rivera.

Carlos Arturo Tejeda Rivera (born July 29, 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).

Carlos Tejeda
Personal information
Full name	Carlos Arturo Tejeda Rivera
Born	(1980-07-29) 29 July 1980 (age 45)[1] Distrito Capital, Caracas, Venezuela
Height	198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	98 kg (216 lb)
Spike	365 cm (144 in)
Block	348 cm (137 in)
National team
2000–2010 Venezuela
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Venezuela Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo Team -->

He won with his team the gold medal at the 2005 Bolivarian Games.^[2]

He was born in Distrito Capita, Caracas, Venezuela.^[3]

Awards

National Team

• Junior World Championship 1999 Thailand 4 Places

Senior Team

• American Cup  Brazil 2000 5 Places
• Olympic Qualifiers  Portugal 2000 3 Places
• World League 2002  Italy  Poland  Russia  Venezuela
• 2005 Bolivarian Games, - Gold Medal
• World Championship 2002  Argentina 9 Places
• Center American and Caribbeans Games  El Salvador 2002 3 Places
• World League  Greece  Poland  Russia  Venezuela 2003
• Pan Americans Games  Dominican Republic 2003 Gold Medal
• Olympic Qualifiers  Portugal 2004 4 Places
• American Cup  Brazil 2005 5 Places
• World League  Brazil  Japan  Portugal  Venezuela 2005
• 2005 Bolivarian Games, - Gold Medal
• World Championship  Japan 2006
• Pan Americans Games  Brazil 2007 4 Places
• Olympic Qualifiers  Argentina 2008 1 Places
• Olympic Games Beijing  China 2008 9 Places
• Center American and Caribbeans Games  Puerto Rico 2010 2 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
• Champions League Unicaja Almeria  Spain  Greece  Belgium  Netherlands  Austria 2006
• Reima Crema  Italy 2006 - 2007
• AEK Athens  Greece 2007
• Al Arabic  Qatar 2008
• Maliye Millipiango  Turkey 2008 - 2009
• LIG  South 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
• Wady Musa  Jordan 2018 - 2019