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| Chiara Navarrini | |||||
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| Nationality | Italy | ||||
| Born | 2 March 1976 | ||||
| Height | 181 m (593 ft 10 in) | ||||
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| Number | 14 (national team) | ||||
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Chiara Navarrini (born 2 March 1976) is a retired Italian volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.
She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, [1] and at the 1997 Women's European Volleyball Championship. On club level she played with Teodora Ravenna.
Andrea Gardini is an Italian volleyball coach and former volleyball player, silver and bronze medallist of the Olympic Games, three–time World Champion, four–time European Champion, seven–time Italian Champion, current head coach of Polish club Jastrzębski Węgiel, PlusLiga. Gardini was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2007.
Sport in Italy has a long tradition. In several sports, both individual and team, Italy has good representation and many successes. Football is the most popular sport in Italy. Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and is currently the second most successful football team in World Cup history, after Brazil, having won four FIFA World Cup championships.
Marrit Leenstra is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Emmen, Drenthe.
Stacy Denise Sykora is a retired American volleyball player. She was a two-time All-American at Texas A&M University and she competed in both the 2000 and the 2004 Olympics as part of the U.S. women's national team. She made her third Olympic appearance at the 2008 Olympics, helping Team USA to a silver medal.
Eleonora Lo Bianco is an Italian volleyball player.
Julie Jo Vollertsen Melli is an American former female professional volleyball player. Her main achievement is her part in the silver medal won by the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. She later moved to Italy to play professionally, settling in Reggio Emilia where she stayed after ending her playing career.
Sofía Esmeralda Mercedes Heredia born May 25, 1976 in Santo Domingo, is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. Sofia Esmeralda won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Playing as a wing-spiker she also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for her native country.
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Nuris Arias Doñé is a retired volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Carolina del Pilar Costagrande is an Argentine born professional volleyball player who became a naturalized Italian. She currently plays for Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü. She played for Argentina between 1999-02 and has played for the Italian national team since 2009.
Marta Menegatti is an Italian beach volleyball player who plays as a left-side defender with her partner Viktoria Orsi Toth. With former teammate Greta Cicolari, she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 4 in August 2012. Her career highlights include two gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour. She is also the 2011 European champion and the 2013 Mediterranean Games champion, both achieved with Cicolari. Menegatti represented Italy at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing fifth and ninth respectively.
Porto Ravenna Volley was a historical volleyball club from the city of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna. Ravenna founded by a group of businessmen and lovers inspired by Giuseppe Brusi, it landed in A1 at the end of the eighties, continuing a tradition that makes the city one of the "cradles" of Italian volleyball.
Teodora Betcheva is a retired Bulgarian female volleyball player.
Silvia Croatto is a retired Italian female volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team winning the silver medal at the 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
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.
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The FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship is an international men's club volleyball competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 1989 in Italy. It was not held between 1993 and 2008, but since 2009, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Qatar and Brazil.
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Irina Donets is a volleyball player from the Netherlands.
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