Leonardo Mataruna
London, United Kingdom
Dr Leonardo Mataruna is Marie Curie Researcher of LONRIO Project of Sports Legacies sponsored by European Union. He is licensee 1st Lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy and is part of Brazilian Judo Confederation/Brazilian Olympic Committee. He attended as part of the Judo team the Olympics of Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012; the Paralympic Games of Athens 2004 as coach and, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 as journalist (commentator); and the Winter Olympics of Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 as observer and researcher. As University Teacher worked at UNIABEU, Celso Lisboa University and UFRJ. Dr Mataruna is part of Coventry University’s CPRS and Visitor Research Fellow at Advantage Program of Contemporary Culture (PACC) of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.