1998 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix
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1998 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix
The 1998 FIVB World Grand Prix was the sixth women's volleyball tournament of its kind, played by eight countries from 21 August to 13 September 1998. The final round was staged in Hong Kong. Preliminary rounds Ranking The best four teams from the overall ranking are qualified for the final round. First round Group A *Venue: Macau Group B *Venue: Chongqing, China Second round Group C *Venue: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Group D *Venue: Bangkok, Thailand Third round Group E *Venue: Chennai, India Group F *Venue: Shanghai, China Final round *Venue: Hong Kong Final four Semifinals 3rd place match Final Final standings Individual awards *Most valuable player: ** *Best scorer: ** *Best spiker: ** *Best blocker: ** *Best server: ** *Best setter: ** *Best receiver: ** Dream Team Setter: ** Middle Blockers: ** ** Outside hitters: ** ** Opposite hitter: ** ReferencesResults FIVB World Grand P ...
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Leila Barros
Leila Gomes de Barros (born September 30, 1971) is a Brazilian politician and a former volleyball player. She often played as opposite hitter and attacker. She was a member of the Brazilian squad who had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade), winning the 1996 and 1998 editions of the volleyball Grand Prix and being rated the most valuable player (MVP) in each win. Volleyball career Barros started competing in volleyball at the age of fifteen. She switched to beach volleyball in July 2001, but returned to the indoor courts in 2003 to help the Brazil women's national volleyball team to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In the Volleyball Women's World Cups, Barros finished as runners-up in 1995 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup and 2003 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, won third place in 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup. She also got silver medals in the 1994 World Championships. In the Olympics, her Brazilian team was 3rd in ...
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Karin Rodrigues
Karin Rodrigues (born November 8, 1971, in São Paulo) is a volleyball player. She competed for Brazil at the 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, and 2000 Summer Olympics. There, she won the bronze medal with the Women's National Team. Rodrigues also claimed the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and .... Career Rodrigues won the best blocker award and the gold medal in the 1995 South American Club Championship playing with the Peruvian club Juventus Sipesa. Individual awards * '' 1995 South American Club Championship – "Best Blocker"'' * ''1996–97 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Spiker"'' References *UOL profile 1971 births Living people Brazilian women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer ...
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Ana Moser
Ana Beatriz Moser (born August 14, 1968 in Blumenau) is a Brazilian former volleyball player, who played as an outside hitter. She was a member of the Women's National Team for over a decade, serving as the team captain and winning the squad's first Olympic Games medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She participated at the 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup. Clubs * Transbrasil (1985–1988) * Sadia Esporte Clube (1988–1991) * Colgate/São Caetano (1991–1993) * Leite Moça/Sorocaba (1993–1996) * Mizuno/Uniban (1996–1997) * Dayvit/Barueri (1997–1998) * UNG Ung or UNG may refer to: People * Woong, a Korean given name also spelled Ung * Ung (surname), a Cambodian and Norwegian surname * Ung Thị (full name Nguyễn Phúc Ung Thị; 1913–2001), Vietnamese-born American businessman * Franz Unger ( ... (1998–1999) * BCN/Osasco (1998–1999) Awards Individuals * '' 1987 FIVB U20 World Championship – "Most Valuable Player"'' * '' 1990 FIVB World Champions ...
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Yelena Godina
Yelena Mikhailovna Godina (russian: Елена Михайловна Година) (born 17 September 1977, in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at 2006 Volleyball World Championship in Japan and the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed at the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She participated at the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. Notes *Height: 1.97 m *Weight: 73 kg *Shoe size: 47 (EU) / 14 (US) Honours * 1998 World Championship – 3rd place * 1999 World Cup – 2nd place * 2000 Olympic Games – 2nd place * 2002 World Championship – 3rd place * 2006 World Championship – 1st place * 2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 2 ...
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Regla Torres
Regla Torres Herrera (born February 12, 1975 in Havana) is a Cuban volleyball player who has won three Olympic gold medals with her first being at the young, for volleyball, age of 17. She has played on the international circuit since she was 14. In 2001, she was recipient of the ''Best Player of the 20th Century'' award by the FIVB and was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame. Awards References External links Regla Torresat the International Volleyball Federation International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ... * 1975 births Cuban women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Cuba Olympic gold me ...
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Yelena Vasilevskaya
Yelena Vasilyevna Vasilevskaya (russian: Елена Васильевна Василевская), (born 27 February 1978 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var .... External links * Uralochka VC profile 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg Russian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Russia Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub ...
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Yumilka Ruiz
Yumilka Daysi Ruíz Luaces (born 8 May 1978 in Camagüey) is a retired volleyball player from Cuba, who represented her native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She twice won a gold medal with the national team in 1996 and 2000; she also claimed the bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Career She played the 2004/05 season with the Russian club Uralochka-NTMK, where she set the record of scoring 53 points in a single match. She retired in 2008 aged 30. At 1.79m the outside hitter had a jumping power reaching 3.28m. In August 2008 she was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee by the 120th IOC Session. After three years of inactivity Ruiz made a comeback in 2012 to play in Russian League for Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg and participated in the European Champions League. Clubs * Medinex Reggio Calabria (1996–2000) * Ciudad Habana (2000–2006) * Uralochka-NTMK (2004–2005) * Camagüey (2006–2008) * Ur ...
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Eleonora Lo Bianco
Eleonora Lo Bianco (born 22 December 1979) is an Italian volleyball player. Career Born in Borgomanero, in her youth she played in the Omegna volleyball team. In the season 1998/1999 she was recruited to the ''Club Italia'', a special team organized by the Italian volleyball Federation to train young players. After that experience she played for several teams in the Italian woman Volleyball League. She is 172 cm tall and weighs 70 kg. Lo Bianco played with her national team at the 2014 World Championship. There her team ended up in fourth place after losing 2–3 to Brazil the bronze medal match. Clubs * Pallavolo Omegna (1994–1995) * Eme Pallavolo Omegna (1995–1998) * Club Italia (1998–1999) * Brums Busto Arsizio (1999–2000) * Mirabilandia Teodora Ravenna (2000–2002) * Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi (2002–2005) * Foppapedretti Bergamo (2005–2011) * Galatasaray Medical Park (2011–2014) * Fenerbahçe (2014-2015) * Volley Bergamo (2015 ...
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Lyubov Sokolova (volleyball)
Lyubov Vladimirovna Sokolova (russian: Любо́вь Влади́мировна Соколо́ва (Шашко́ва), also known as Lyubov Kılıç and formerly known as Lyubov Shashkova, born 4 December 1977) is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at 2006 and 2010 World Championship in Japan and the silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Personal life She married Turkish former volleyball player Aytaç Kılıç when she was playing for Eczacıbaşı Istanbul. She has a son from her ex-husband. She has Turkish as well as Russian citizenship. Career Sokolova has numerous individual awards in all categories. In 2006, she was honored "Best player of Europe". She won the 2006–07 CEV Top Teams Cup with the Spanish team Grupo 2002 Murcia, and was awarded "Most Valuable Player" and "Best Server". Sokolova won the bronze medal at the 2010–11 CEV Champions League w ...
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Bernardo Rezende
Bernardo Rocha de Rezende (born 25 August 1959), known as Bernardo Rezende and nicknamed Bernardinho, is a Brazilian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current coach of the female volleyball team Rio de Janeiro Vôlei Clube. Rezende is the most successful coach in the history of volleyball, accumulating more than 30 major titles in twenty-year career directing the Brazilian male and female teams. He has won two Olympic gold medals during his coaching career, as head coach of Brazil men's national volleyball team at Athens 2004 and Rio 2016 Olympics. He also won two bronze medals as head coach of Brazil women's national volleyball team at 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney. As of 2021, with 48 medals overall, he is the most successful team sport coach of all time. Career Player Rezende played volleyball from 1979 to 1985, and competed in two Olympics, winning a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also finished fifth at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal ...
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Fernanda Doval
Fernanda Doval (born ) is a retired Brazilian female volleyball player. She was part of the Brazil women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The 1994 FIVB Women's World Championship was the twelfth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 17 to 30 October 1994 in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Teams ;Group A * * * * .... On club level she played with Ponto Frio/Santa Rita. Clubs * Ponto Frio/Santa Rita (1994) References 1975 births Living people Brazilian women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Belo Horizonte {{Brazil-volleyball-bio-stub ...
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