Volleyball Olympics Players:- The first volleyball game in Olympics was played in 1924 Summer Olympics Paris. However, the International Olympic Committee tried to drop volleyball in the 1968 Olympics but was retained because of the worldwide protest.
Volleyball Olympics Players
The first two volleyball Olympics were won by the Soviet Union by the men’s national team and the first two Olympics gold were volleyball game of women’s event were won by the host Japanese national team in 1968 and 1972.
No.1 Amauri Riberio
- Nationality:- Brazilian
- National Team:- Brazil
- Home town:- Sao Paulo
- Height:- 198cm
- Current club:- Retired
- About:- Amauri Ribeiro, popularly known as Amauri, is a former Brazilan volleyball player who represented Brazil in various Olympics games. He won the silver medal in the 1984 summer Olympics and gold in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also played in the 1980 Olympics. He played his last Olympics in 1992 where he won his gold in the Olympics game in Barcelona.
No.2 Daniel Castellani
- Full name:- Daniel Jorge Castellani
- Nationality:- Argentine
- National team:- Argentina
- Height:- 1.95m
- Home town:- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Current club:- Retired
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- About:- Daniel Jorge Castellani is an Argentine coach and former volleyball player and current member of Argentina’s men’s national team in 1976-1988. He won the bronze medal in the Seoul Olympics game, participated in the Los Angeles Olympic games 1984. He is also the coach of the Turkish club Fenerbahce Istanbul. He is married to Silvina Pozzo and has two children named Ariana and a son Ivan.
No.3 Sergio Santos
- Nationality:- Brazilaian
- National Team:- Brazil
- Full name:- Sergio Dutra dos Santos
- Position:- Libero
- Home town:- Nova Londrina, Brazil
- Height:- 1.84m
- Current club:- Retired
- About:- Sergio Dutra dos Santos popularly known as Serginho is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He is a member of Brazil’s national team. He won gold medals in the 2004 and 2016 Olympics and he won the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He is a seven-time South American Champion and won every South American Championship during his whole career in the national team. He announced his retirement after playing Rio Olympics finals.
No.4 Luigi Mastrangelo
- Full name:- Luigi Mastrangelo
- Nickname:- Gigi
- Position:- Middle-blocker
- National team:- Italy
- Nationality:- Italian
- Current club:- Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo
- Height:- 2.02m
- About:- Luigi Mastrangelo is an Italian men’s volleyball player and a member of Italy’s men’s national team from 1992 to 2012. He won silver and bronze medals in Olympics games and won three gold European Championship, two gold medals in World League and two silver in 2001 and 2004 world league. He was awarded best server in 1999 and 2001 FIVB World League and awarded player of the year Italy. He was awarded Knight’s Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
No.5 Aleksey Kuleshov
- Full name:- Aleksey Vladimirovich Kuleshov
- Nationality:- Russian
- National Team:- Russia
- Home town:- Fryazino, Russia
- Height:- 2.06m
- Current club:- retired
- Position:- Middle Blocker
- About:- Aleksey Vladimirovich Kuleshov is a Russian volleyball player and was a member of Russia’s men’s national volleyball team. Presently the head coach of Dynamo Moscow. He was a member of the men’s national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He also won the 2002 Volleyball World League with Russia and also won bronze at Summer Olympics 2004. He won the Most Valuable Player of the award in the 2004 Russian Championship. He also won the Best Blocker award in the 2002 FIVBWorld League.
No.6 Sergey Tetyukhin
- Nationality:- Russian
- National Team:- Russia
- Full name:- Sergey Yuryevich Tetyukhin
- Nickname:- Tyutik
- Home town:- Ferghana, Uzbekistan, USSR
- Height:- 1.97m
- Current club:- Retired
- Position:- Outside hitter
- About:- Sergey Yuryevich Tetyukhin is a Russian former volleyball player who is popularly known as Tyutik. He represented his national team of Russia in four consecutive Olympics. He is one of the three male volleyball players to won four Olympic medals in their long sporting career in volleyball and the only volleyball player in the world with four Olympic medals in all three types. He won gold in London Olympics, silver in 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympics, and a bronze in the 2008 Bejing Olympics.
No.7 Regla Torres
- Nationality:- Cuban
- National Team:- Cuba
- Home town:- Santa Clara
- Height:- 1.91m
- Current club:- Retired
- Position:- Middle blocker
- About:- Regla Torres is a retired volleyball player from Cuba. She won three gold medals in the Olympic Games of Atlanta, Sydney, and Barcelona respectively. She was a gold medallist at World Championship. in 1994 and 1998. She also won the gold 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.
No.8 Yekaterina Gamova
- Nationality:- Russian
- National Team:- Russia
- Home town:- Yekaterinburg
- Height:- 2.06m
- Current club:- Dinamo Kazan
- 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.9 Helia Souza
- Nationality:- Brazilian
- National Team:- Brazil
- Full name:- Helia Rogerio de Souza
- Home town:- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Height:-1.73m
- Current club:- Retired
- Nickname:- Fofao
- About:- Helia Rogerio de Souza is a former Brazilain volleyball player who represented Brazilain national team for consecutive five Summer Olumpiocs which started in 1991. He won gold in2008 Summer Olympics. She won the bronze medal two times in a row in the 2000 and 1996 Summer Olympics. She also won gold medal in Pan American Games.
No.10 Stacy Sykora (Volleyball Olympics Players)
- Nationality:- American
- National Team:- United States of America
- Home town:- Fort Worth, Texas, US
- Height:- 1.75m
- Current club:- Retired
- About:- Stacy is a retired volleyball player who represented the US in three Olympics. She participated in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics games and won a silver medal in the 2008 Olympics. She also won gold in 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix.
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