Carolina Solberg Salgado

Carolina Solberg
Solberg at the 2017 World Championships
Personal information
Full nameCarolina Salgado Solberg
NicknameCarol
Born (1987-08-06) 6 August 1987 (age 39)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Years Teammate
2024–present Rebecca Silva
Previous teammates
Years Teammate
  • 2002
  • 2003–15
  • 2003–04 / 2021–24
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2017
  • 2017–19
Honours
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2025 AdelaideBeach
Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Gold medal – first placeSeason 2024Beach
Gold medal – first placeSeason 2025Beach
South American Games
Gold medal – first place2022 AsunciónBeach
Gold medal – first place2026 Santa FeBeach
U21 World Championships
Gold medal – first place2004 Porto SantoBeach
Gold medal – first place2005 Rio de JaneiroBeach
Bronze medal – third place2003 Saint Quay PortrieuBeach
U18 World Championships
Silver medal – second place2003 PattayaBeach

Carolina Solberg Salgado (born 6 August 1987) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She won a gold medal in the 2004 FIVB Under-18 World Championship and again in the Under-21 World Championship in 2005.

Playing alongside Bárbara Seixas, she represented Brazil in beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Her siblings, Maria Clara Salgado [pt] and Pedro Solberg, are also successful players, as was their mother Isabel in past years.

Solberg is married to art director and 2013 Latin Grammy awardee Fernando Young.

Opposition to Jair Bolsonaro

In 2020, Solberg was punished by the Brazilian Superior Court of Sports Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva) for shouting "Bolsonaro, out!" during a live interview. She was fined 100,000 reais and was suspended for 6 games. She protested the punishment and in a second trial she was absolved of all charges. The Brazilian Volleyball Confederation accused her of "staining the sport", even though many other volleyball players have consistently showed support for Bolsonaro without any repercussions or reprimands.

References

  1. ↑ "SOLBERG SALGADO Carolina". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 7 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Carolina Salgado Collet Solberg". bvbinfo.com. Beach Volleyball Database. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "Volleyball star becomes surprising voice of anti-Bolsonaro Brazil". The Guardian. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2021.