Tallest Female Volleyball Players

Tallest Female Volleyball Players:- There is always a benefit of the tall height of players in sports especially in the game like volleyball where tall players are generally always in need because they will block and attack the ball but short players are also needed in the defense due to short time reaction they have to pass the ball.

Volleyball is clearly is a sport where height plays an important role because tall players have higher reach and can also reach the net more comfortably and quickly rather than in comparison to short players. Even though everyone whether tall, short all can play volleyball it just provides an extra benefit to the players.

No.1 Yekaterina Gamova

Full name:- Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova
Nationality:- Russian
Born:- 17 October 1980
Height:- 6ft 9 inch
Position:- Opposite
Instagram:- Official Yekaterina Gamova Instagram Profile
About:- Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova is a retired professional volleyball player who was a member of the Russian volleyball national team in 2004 and 2000 Athens and Sydney Olympics respectively where they won silver in both the games. They also won gold medals in the 2006 and 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championships. She is the tallest female athlete in the world.

No.2 Nelly Alisheva

Full name:- Nelly Mikhailovna Alisheva Fonovo
Nationality:- Russian
Position:- Centre
Born:- 20 December 1983
Height:- 6ft 8inch
About:- Nelly Mikhailovna Alisheva Fonovo is a retired volleyball player from Russia whose height is 6ft 8inch is also one the tallest female volleyball player in the world. She started his career at MGFSO and from 2003to 2011 she played for Dinamo-Yantar from last played for VK Proton in 2013. She has a beautiful daughter named Nelly Alisheva who is also an aspiring volleyball player

No.3 Dana Rattke

Full name:- Dana Lynn Rattke
Nationality:- American
Born:- 21 January 1999
Height:- 6ft 8 inch
Position:- Middle blocker
About:- Dana Lynn Rattke is a professional volleyball player at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of the United States National Team and has won all-Big ten competitions during her college seasons. She was also awarded Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year in 2019-20. Her team also won the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Nation League in Nanjing, China.

No.4 Magdalena Stysiak

Full name:- Magdalena Stysiak
Nationality:- Polish
Born:- 3 December 2000
Height:- 6ft 8 inch
Position:- Outside hitter
About:- Magdalena Stysiak is a Polish volleyball player who is currently the rising star of the Polish volleyball team and is preparing for the national team. She has participated in the 2018 Women’s Under 19 Volleyball European Championship, 2019 Women’s European Volleyball Championship. 2019 Montreux Volley Master’s, 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Nations League, and 2020 Summer Olympics qualification.

No.5 Anna Kajalina

Full name:- Anna Kajalina
Nationality:- Estonian
Born:- 8 March 1991
Height:- 6ft 6inch
Position:- Opposite hitter
About:- Anna Kajalina is a volleyball player from Estonia who currently plays for the Cutrofiano Volley club and is a member of the Estonia Volleyball national team.

No.6 Valentina Diouf

Full name:- Valentina Diouf
Nationality:- Italian
Born:-10 January 1993
Height:- 6ft 71\2inch
Position:- Opposite
Current club:- Daejeon KGC
About:- Valentina Diouf is a professional volleyball player from Italy who played for the national team in the 2014 World Championship where she won the bronze medal after losing 2-3 to Brazil. She won Best Opposite striker in the 2014-2015 CEV Champions League and Most Valuable Player in the 2016-2017 CEV Cup.

No.7 Yulia Merkulova

Full name:- Yulia Merkulova
Nationality:- Russian
Born:- 17 February 1984
Height:- 6ft 8 inch
Position:- Middle blocker
About:- Yulia Merkulova is a Russian volleyball player who plays for the Dinamo Krasnodar club and is a member of the Russian volleyball team. She was the part of 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship who won the gold medal held in Japan and the 2010 World Championship in Japan. She also won CEV Women’s Challenge Cup Champion with Dinamo Krasnodar.

NO.8 Zhu Ting

Nationality– Chinese
Height– 6 feet 6 inches
Position -Outside hitter
Current club– Tianjin Bohai Bank
National team– China
About:- Passionate player and Captain of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball National Team, ZhuTing was born on 29 November 1994. She is known as the ‘Most Decorated Indoor Volleyball player’ of all time and is among the ‘Highest paid Volleyball player’ in the world. In 2016 she was proud gold medallist of the Olympic game that was held in Rio de Janeiro 2016. She was the gold medallist in the World Cup of 2015 and 2019 that was held in Japan.

No.9 Floriana Bertone (Tallest Female Volleyball Players)

Full name:- Floriana Bertone
Nationality:- Italian
Born:- 19 November 1992
Height:- 6ft 6 inch
Position:- Outside hitter
Current club:- 11 Bisonte San Casciano
About:- Floriana Bertone is an Italian professional volleyball player who is also a member of Italy’s Women’s national volleyball team. She participated in the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix and plays for 11 Bisonte San Casciano.

NO.10 Regla Torres (Tallest Female Volleyball Players)

Nationality:- Cuban
Height:- 6ft 4 inch
Position:- Middle blocker
National team:- 1991 to 2002 Cuba
About:- Regla was born on 12 February 1975 in Havana. This champion won the Olympic gold medal at the young age of 17. 14 years old Regla was also engaged in International Circuit. She acquired 3 gold medals in the Olympic Games of Atlanta, Sydney, and Barcelona. She was a gold medallist at World Championship. In 1994 and 1998, she was also the gold medallist in World Grand Champion Cup in 1993, Japan. She was considered the best player of the 20th century and the award was given by VFB.