Carlos Paro
Athlete
1979 –
Who is Carlos Paro?
Carlos Paro is an event rider who won a team Bronze medal in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 in eventing for Brazil. He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
His 1st major event was the World Equestrian Games in Rome in 1998 at the age of 19 which they finish the team competition in 9th. He also won the team gold medal in the South-American Games in Belo Horizonte in 2001. Now based in the U.K. he is the only Brazilian to complete Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials several times.
He was named as a reserve for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and few days before the Games started he was called into to the team as one of the horses were injured, but due to a misunderstand in the Brazilian Equestrian Federetion his forms were never sent to the IOC which meant he wasn't allowed to compete.
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