Bruno Oscar Schmidt

Bruno Oscar Schmidt (born 6 October 1986) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player.

He plays as a right-side defender.

Bruno is the nephew of the former Brazilian basketball player Oscar Schmidt and of the TV news announcer Tadeu Schmidt.

He was ninth in the U21 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro in 2005 with Vinícius de Almeida Santos.

A year later, he won the competition in Mysłowice with Pedro Solberg Salgado.

In 2007 he formed a duo with Joao Maciel.

After ninth and fifth place at the Challenger tournaments in Brno and Cyprus, Bruno / Maciel won the satellite tournament in Lausanne.

At the Fortaleza Open, they played their first tournament of the FIVB World Tour.

In 2008 they were defeated in three open tournaments in the "Country Quota" and were 17th in Barcelona.

This was followed by a fourth place at Challenger in Brno and a final appearance at the Lausanne Satellite.

Then Bruno / Maciel became seventh in the Marseille Open and landed a top-ten result for the first time on the World Tour.

They also succeeded in their first Grand Slams in Gstaad and Klagenfurt.

In Kristiansand, they were defeated in the final by the Spaniards Herrera / Mesa.

Then they were seventh in Mallorca and fourth in Guarujá.

At the 2009 World Championships in Stavanger, they made it as runner-ups into the first major round.

Then they lost against the Latvians Samoilovs / Sorokins.

On the World Tour, they finished fifth in Marseille and Stare Jabłonki and three times ended up in ninth place.

In 2010, he was named the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Most Improved Player.

On the World Tour 2010, Bruno played with Benjamin Insfran.

In their first joint appearance, Bruno / Benjamin achieved third place in Brasília.

After that, they finished fifth in Shanghai and had three ninth places before becoming fifth again in Prague.

They also achieved this result in Marseille and Kristiansand.

At their last FIVB tournament of the year, they reached the final, defeating American Jennings / Wong.

At the beginning of the World Tour 2011, they finished seventh in Brasília and ninth in Beijing.

At the World Cup in Rome, they reached the second round as the second of their group, in which they eliminated the Polish couple Fijałek / Prudel.

After a fifth place at the Grand Slam in Moscow, they parted ways temporarily.

The rest of the season Bruno completed with his former partner Joao Maciel.

The duo's best results were ninth place in Quebec and fourth place in Klagenfurt.

In 2012, Bruno and Benjamin were reunited.

In all tournaments in which they were on the court together, they achieved top ten results on the World Tour 2012.

They were fourth in Shanghai, fifth in Moscow and Gstaad, and three times ninth.

Bruno finished fifth at the Grand Slam in Stare Jablonki with Thiago Santos Barbosa.

He was also named the Best Defensive Player in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

In the 2013 season, Bruno played with Pedro Solberg Salgado.

After a fifth place in Fuzhou, they made the final of the Grand Slam in Shanghai, which they lost to Gibb / Patterson.

They finished fourth in Corrientes and then won the Grand Slam in The Hague against Samoilovs / Šmēdiņš.

Schmidt won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships with his teammate Alison Cerutti in the Netherlands.

He won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics with Alison Cerutti.

Bruno first played volleyball in the hall.

Since he did not like the position of the player, he moved to beach volleyball.