Javier Bello

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Javier Bello
Javier Bello at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.jpg
Javier at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Full nameLuis Javier Bello Fernandez Echevarria
NationalityBritish
Born (2000-07-20) 20 July 2000 (age 23)
Madrid, Spain
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
YearsTeammate
2016– Joaquin Bello
Honours
Men's beach volleyball
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Beach volleyball
Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Goa Challenge
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Cortegaça Future
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Cortegaça
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Nijmegen
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Rubavu
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Nassau

Javier Bello (born 20 July 2000) is a British beach volleyball player.

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Together with his twin brother Joaquin, they are the current British No. 1 team. [1] They won the bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. He is a 5-time medallist on the FIVB World Tour, winning Britain’s only gold medal, and a 3-time British champion.

Junior career

Javier and Joaquin started playing volleyball at the age of 6 at their local club in Madrid. In 2011, their family moved to London and they joined Richmond Volleyball Club, where they won multiple national championships in indoor and beach volleyball in all the underage categories. [2]

In 2016, the brothers started their international beach volleyball career and earned their first England cap at the U17 NEVZA Beach Volleyball Championships, eventually taking the gold medal. [3] [4]

Beach volleyball made its Commonwealth Games debut in the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas. There, the duo won gold, helping England to top the medal table. [5]

Whilst in the middle of their A-levels, the Bello brothers qualified for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, making them the first ever British team to qualify for this competition. [6] [7] They clinched the 5th and last European spot for the Games by beating Hungary in the last playoff match. [8] Representing Team GB for their first time, [9] the brothers lost in the quarterfinal against host country Argentina, ending up in 5th place. [10] [11]

They finished in 5th place at the U19 World Championships in Nanjing, China - Britain’s highest ever finish at any world junior event. [5]

Senior career

Javier played his first World Tour event in Aydin, Turkey in 2017. [12]

In 2019, the twins won a bronze medal in Rubavu, Rwanda after being defeated by the eventual champions Japan in the semifinal. It was the first ever World Tour medal for a British men’s team. [13] [14]

In 2021, they won their first World Tour gold medal in Cortegaça, Portugal, the first in British history. [15] [16] [17] They followed that with another medal, a bronze at the World Tour event in Nijmegen. [18]

In 2022, the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour (BPT) replaced the FIVB World Tour and the Bello brothers won another bronze medal in Cortegaça, Portugal. [12]

With his brother, he achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 36 in November 2023. [19]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the brothers competed for Team England at the Smithfield arena, later nicknamed the "Bellodrome”. [20] [21] They achieved a historic bronze medal, the first for England at the Commonwealth Games, just 5 years on from their triumph at the Commonwealth Youth Games. [22] [23] [24]

In 2023, the team reached the quarterfinals of the European Championship in Vienna, defeating former world champions Brouwer/ Meeuwsen (NED). [25] They followed it up with a bronze medal in the BPT Challenge in Goa, India. [26]

Javier has won 3 British Championship titles, winning the UK Beach Tour Finals in 2020, 2021 and 2023. [27] [28] [29]

Personal life

After moving to London in 2011, Javier attended Gunnersbury Catholic School in Brentford, London. [2] [3] [30]

The brothers train in Barnes [31] and are coached by their father Luis Bello, a former professional player and coach. [5] [6] Beach volleyball is a full family affair with their mum coordinating their support team and their younger brother following on their footsteps in 2023 with a bronze medal in the BPT Futures in Bujumbura, Burundi. [32] [33]

Javier graduated from Royal Holloway University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. [32] [33]

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