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| Full name | Nicole Therese Sanderson | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 April 1976 Perth, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Nicole Therese Sanderson (born 1 April 1976 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian beach volleyball player. [1]
Sanderson started her career in indoor volleyball where played for Pepperdine University, in the United States. [2] In 1998 she competed for the first time in FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour where she took part until the 2006 season.
Her best World Tour result was a second place in Osaka, Japan, alongside Natalie Cook in 2004. [3] That year they have been selected to represent Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens. [4] Cook had won the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (with Kerri Pottharst) and they won a bronze medal at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro. [3] They finished the Olympics in fourth place [5] after losing the bronze medal match to Americans Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs. [6]
