Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russian national team that won the gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championships, and the silver medal in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Due to her stature and dominance at the net, she has been hailed as the "Queen of Volleyball". She is 2.05 m tall with EU size 49 feet, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world. She is also the second highest paid female player in professional volleyball history. Her role was outside hitter/opposite.
Lyubov Vladimirovna Sokolova is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at 2006 and 2010 World Championship in Japan and the silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Yumilka Daysi Ruíz Luaces is a retired volleyball player from Cuba, who represented her native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She twice won a gold medal with the national team in 1996 and 2000; she also claimed the bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Zoila Barros Fernández is a retired Cuban female volleyball player, who played as a middle blocker. She was part of the Cuba women's national volleyball team On club level she played with Ciudad Deportiva La Habana.
Marina Igorevna Sheshenina is a volleyball player from Russia, who plays as a setter. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, claiming the silver medal.
Aleksandra Arkadyevna Pasynkova is a volleyball player from Russia. She plays for Uralochka-NTMK.
Uralochka-NTMK is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Yekaterinburg and currently plays in the Super League, the top Russian league. It was established in 1966 and is the most successful club in the USSR and Russian women's volleyball combined history with 25 national championship titles.
Irina Vladimirovna Kirillova, also known as Irina Parkhomchuk, is a retired competitive volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist for the Soviet Union, later competing for Croatia.
Kathleen Weiß is a German volleyball player. She plays as setter and has over 300 appearances for the Germany women's national volleyball team. At club level she plays for Czech VK Agel Prostějov. Weiß has played in many international competitions and won various national championships and cups with the clubs she played for.
Laura Emonts, née Weihenmaier is a German volleyball player. She is a member of the Germany women's national volleyball team. She was part of the German national team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy.
Pavla Šmídová, née Vincourová is a Czech female volleyball player. She was part of the Czech Republic women's national volleyball team.
Helena Horká is a Czech female volleyball player, who plays as an outside-spiker for MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza.
Tatjana Gorschkova is a retired Russian female volleyball player, who played as a wing spiker.
Maria Likthtenchtein, also spelled Likhtenstein or Liechtenstein is a retired female volleyball player who played for the Russian (1993–1996) and the Croatian (1997–2007) national volleyball teams. She played for clubs in Russia, Croatia, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Turkey. Her retirement was announced in 2013, she won club and national team titles during her career.
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1970 they have been awarded every four years. The current champions are the Serbia, which won their second title at the 2022 tournament in Netherlands and Poland.
Viktorija Kuzjakina is a Russian female volleyball player, playing as a libero. She is part of the Russia women's national volleyball team.
Ksenia Alexandrovna Parubets is a Russian volleyball player, playing as an outside-spiker. She is part of the Russia women's national volleyball team.
Yoslan Muñoz Garcia is a Cuban volleyball player.
Alessandra Fratoni is a Brazilian female volleyball player, who played as a middle blocker.
Silvana Chausheva is a Bulgarian volleyball player, playing as an opposite. She is part of the Bulgaria women's national volleyball team, and participated at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix. and the 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship. On club level she plays for VK Maritsa Plovdiv.
