Italy women's national volleyball team 2002

The Italy women's national volleyball team is governed by the Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV). The team's biggest victories were the gold medal at the 2002 FIVB Women's World Championship, being the first team to break the domination of

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, winning 21 out of the 22 matches in both tournaments.

Results

Summer Olympics

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

World Championship

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place *

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Gold medal *: Anzanello, Borrelli, Cardullo, Leggeri, Lo Bianco, Mello, Mifkova, Paggi, Piccinini, Rinieri, Sangiuliano, Togut. Head Coach: Bonitta *

World Cup

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place * 2007 — Gold medal with cup

Gold medal *: Anzanello, Guiggi, Barazza, Secolo, Cardullo, Ortolani, Aguero, Ferretti, Lo Bianco, Del Core, Gioli. Head Coach: Barbolini *

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Gold medal *: Anzanello, Barcellini, Croce, De Gennaro, Costagrande, C. Bosetti, Sirressi, Arrighetti, Lo Bianco, Del Core, L. Bosetti, Gioli, Signorile, Folie. Head Coach: Barbolini *

World Grand Champions Cup

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— gold medal

World Grand Prix

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

Nations League

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place *

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— gold medal

European Championship

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place * 2007 — Gold medal with cup

Gold medal *: Gioli, Croce, Fiorin, Guiggi, Barazza, Secolo, Ortolani, Aguero, Ferretti, Lo Bianco, Del Core, Cardullo. Head Coach: Barbolini *

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Gold medal *: Crisanti, Rondon, Merlo, Barazza, Secolo, Cardullo, Ortolani, Piccinini, Arrighetti, Lo Bianco, Del Core, Bosetti, Gioli, Agüero. Head Coach: Barbolini *

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Gold medal *: Gennari, Bonifacio, Malinov, De Gennaro, Orro, Chirichella, Danesi, Fahr, Pietrini, Nwakalor,

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, Egonu, Parrocchiale, Mazzaro, Sofia D'Odorico. Head Coach: Mazzanti *

Mediterranean Games

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— silver medal * 1979 — gold medal * 1983 — gold medal *

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— bronze medal *

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— gold medal *

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— gold medal * 2001 — gold medal *

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— bronze medal *

— gold medal *

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— gold medal * 2018 — 5th *

— gold medal

Team

Current squad

The following is the Italian roster in the 2021 European Championship. Head coach: Davide Mazzanti

Previous squads

The following is the Italian roster in the 2018 World Championship. Head coach: Davide Mazzanti

Notable players

Paola Egonu Paola Ogechi Egonu (born 18 December 1998) is an Italian volleyball player. She plays for Turkish volleyball club VakıfBank S.K. and was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team until 2022 when she is considering leaving from the team ...

Simona Gioli Simona Gioli (born September 17, 1977, in Rapallo) is a retired volleyball player from Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle o ...

* Carolina Costagrande *

Paola Croce Paola Croce (born March 6, 1978, in Rome) is an Italian volleyball player, who plays as a libero. She currently plays for RC Cannes RC Cannes is a French women's volleyball club based in Cannes and playing in the Ligue AF. History was creat ...

Francesca Piccinini Francesca Piccinini (born 10 January 1979 in Massa) is an Italian volleyball player who has represented Italy four times (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at ...

Elisa Togut Elisa Togut (born 14 May 1978 in Gorizia) is an Italian former volleyball player who represented Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she ended up in ninth place with the Women's National Team. Two years later, ...

* Valentina Arrighetti *

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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 orga ...

Antonella Del Core Antonella Del Core (born 5 November 1980 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian professional volleyball player. She plays for Italy women's national volleyball team. She has competed in the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is tall. She won the Be ...

* Simona Rinieri *

Manuela Leggeri Manuela Leggeri (born 9 May 1976 in Sezze) is a volleyball player who represented Italy twice (2000 and 2004) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2002 World Championship in Germa ...

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Paola Cardullo Paola Cardullo (born 18 March 1982 in Omegna) is a volleyball player from Italy, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. There she was named ''Best Libero ...

* Sabrina Bertini * Darina Mifkova *

Sara Anzanello Sara Anzanello (30 July 1980 – 25 October 2018) was an Italian volleyball player in the middle hitter-blocker role. Biography Anzanello was born in San Donà di Piave, province of Venice. She debuted for Italy national team in 1998, when she w ...

Maurizia Cacciatori Maurizia Cacciatori (born 6 April 1973) is an Italian former volleyball player and sport commentator. Born in Carrara, Cacciatori has racked up 228 appearances in the Italian national team, winning a gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games ...

Raffaella Calloni Raffaella Calloni (born ) is an Italian female volleyball Volleyball is a 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 ru ...

Paola Paggi Paola Paggi (born 6 December 1976 in Ivrea, Piedmont) is a volleyball player from Italy, who represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She was a member of the Women's National Team, that won the ...

* Nadia Centoni * Jenny Barazza *

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* Martina Guiggi

References

External links

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