Salome Wanjala

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Salome Wanjala
Personal information
Nationality Kenya
Born (1985-04-20) 20 April 1985 (age 34)
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Volleyball information
Positionwing spiker
Current club Kenya Commercial Bank
Number10 (national team)
National team
2002 Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya

Salome Wanjala (born 20 April 1985) is a retired Kenyan female volleyball player, who played as a wing spiker.

Volleyball ballgame and team sport in which two teams compete to ground the ball on their opponents side of the net

Volleyball is a popular team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.

She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Germany. [1] On club level she played with Kenya Commercial Bank. [2]

Kenya womens national volleyball team


The Kenya women's national volleyball team represents Kenya in international volleyball competitions. Kenya has dominated the African continent since the 90's winning the Women's African Volleyball Championship a record nine times. They also won the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix group 3 title after beating Peru in the final.

2002 FIVB Volleyball Womens World Championship

The 2002 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship was the fourteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster, Schwerin, Riesa, Leipzig and Stuttgart, Germany, from 30 August to 15 September 2002.

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References

  1. "Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 2002 - Teams Composition. - Kenya". todor66.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2015.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  2. "Team Rosters". www.fivb.ch. Retrieved 6 April 2017.