Africa-Press – Angola. Right-back Aznaide Carlos will be Angola’s standard-bearer at the Paris’ 2024 Olympic Games, becoming the seventh handball athlete to make this nation’s commitment, in this multidisciplinary event of global magnitude.
Within the Olympic Games protocol, the standard bearer represents the country, a role granted to those players with references to the service of a nation.
Since Angola’s debut, in the edition held in Moscow in 1980, with Fernando Lopes (swimming) as flag bearer, handball athletes have consciously been privileged throughout the country’s ten appearances at the event (the 11th takes place now in Paris).
This time it was no different, the handball player from Corona Brassov from Romania was nominated by the management of the Olympic Mission, led by Pedro Godinho, in a competition whose opening ceremony takes place on Friday (26), unlike the challenges scheduled for Wednesday ( football) and Thursday (handball).
The right back will participate in the Games for the 5th consecutive time. He debuted in Beijing’2008, at the time he was 18 years old.Standing 1.71 meters tall, the player, known for her shooting power, has more than 100 international caps and over 300 goals scored for the National Team.
In addition to 1.o de Agosto, her training club, and Petro de Luanda, the athlete has experience in Spanish handball, and has played for Podravka Vegeta in Croatia, Kastamonus in Turkey, Rapid Bucharest in Romania and is currently a player for Corona Brassov in Romania.
Angolan flag bearers in ten editions of the Olympic Games:
Moscow`1980 – Fernando Lopes (Swimming)
Seoul 1988 – Hélder Carvalho (Judo)
Barcelona`1992 – Jean Jacques da Conceição (Basketball)
Atlanta`1996 – Palmira Barbosa (Handball)
Sidney`2000 – Nádia Cruz (Swimming)
Atenas`2004 – Alzira Torres (Handball)
Beijing`2008 – Filomena Trindade (Handball/opening) and João Ntyamba (athletics/closing)
London`2012 – Marcelina Kiala (Handball/ opening) and Antónia Moreira “Faia”/ closing)
Rio de Janeiro`2016 – Luísa Kiala (Handball)
Tokyo`2020, played in 2021 due to COVID – Natália Bernanrdo (Handball)
Paris`2024 – Aznaide Carlos (Handball), to be played until the 11th of August.
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