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Full name | Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tamayo | 20 July 1979|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Santo Domingo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 365 cm (144 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 355 cm (140 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Al Arabi Kuwait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: 26 October 2023 |
Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos (born 20 July 1979, in Tamayo), [1] also known as Elvis Contreras, is a male volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the silver medal with the Dominican Republic men's national volleyball team at the 2006 Pan-American Cup in Mexicali, Mexico.
Contreras won the Best Spiker award at the 2001 NORCECA Championship, [2] and Best Scorer at the 2005 version. [3]
At the 2007 NORCECA Championship, Contreras was awarded Best Receiver, and his national team finished in 5th place. [4]
Contreras won the Dominican Republic "2007 Volleyball Player of the Year". [5]
In mid-June 2012, the Poland club Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle announced his joining for the 2012–13 season. [6]
Contreras won the bronze medal in the 2012 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup playing with his national team, and also won the Best Receiver and Best Server awards. [7]
Contreras led the Technocrats to the title of the 2013 Caribbean Volleyball League, [8] also winning the Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer, Best Spiker, and Best Server awards in the Trinidad and Tobago-based tournament. [9] He then joined the Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté. [10]
In August 2014, Contreras announced that he would retire from the national team after the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. [11] At these games, the Dominican Republic won the gold medal for the first time, [12] and Contreras was awarded the Most Valuable Player, Best Outside Spiker, and Best Scorer. [13]
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