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Nickname | Moki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Piano di Sorrento, Italy | 8 January 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 298 cm (117 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 215 cm (85 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Libero | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Imoco Volley Conegliano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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Monica "Moki" De Gennaro (born 8 January 1987) is an Italian professional volleyball player. She plays for Imoco Volley Conegliano and for the Italy women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, [1] 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. [2] In the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal and the best libero award. She is regarded as one of the greatest liberos of all time.
De Gennaro played with her national team at the 2014 World Championship. [3] There her team ended up in fourth place after losing 2–3 to Brazil the bronze medal match. [4] She was selected to be tournament's Best Libero. [5]
De Gennaro won the 2020–21 CEV Women's Champions League and was twice a runner-up with Imoco Volley Conegliano (2016-17 [6] [7] and 2018-19), receiving the award of Best Libero in those three editions of the Champions League.
She won both the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship and the Best Libero award in China.
She won the 2017 FIVB World Grand Prix silver medal and the Best Libero individual award. [8]
At the 2014 FIVB World Championship she won the Best Libero award, and at the 2018 FIVB World Championship in Japan, she won the silver medal and the Best Libero individual award. [9]
She won the 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship and the Best Libero individual award.
She has been married to the volleyball coach Daniele Santarelli since 2017. [10]
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