Katerina Giota ( gr, Κατερίνα Γιώτα; born July 3, 1990 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is a female professional volleyball player from Greece, who is a member of the

Greece women's national volleyball team The Greece women's national volleyball team represents Greece in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches. The team first competed on the highest level at the 1985 European Championship, finishing in 12th pla ...

. At club level, she plays in Hellenic Volley League for Greek powerhouse

Olympiacos Piraeus Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

since July 2013.

Career

Katerina Giota in 2002 moved with her mother from Russia to Greece at an age of 12 years old and they were established in the Greek city Grevena, where she obtained the Hellenic citizenship. From her younger age, she was engaged in swimming, so she continued in Greece, but some day she was spotted by coach Memtsas and was persuaded to try volleyball. In this way she started her rich career in volleyball, which was to lead her into one of the best ever central blockers in the history of the certain sport in Greece. Thus in 2004 she joined G.S. Grevena, a club of her hometown, where she remained up to 2006 when she removed to 1st division A.S. Aris Thessaloniki. Two more years in Aris until her transfer to G.S. Iraklis Kifisia. With this club Katerina Giota won twice the 3rd place of the Hellenic Championship. In 2013 Olympiacos managed to convince Katerina Giota to be a member of the Piraeus club, after three failed attempts. Until then Giota used to wear her favourite No 13 on her shirt, in every of her previous teams. But in her new club she was told that this number does not exist in any of Olympiacos sport sections, as it represents their hot rivals from Athens. So, Katerina Giota chose the No 1 shirt, and kept the No 13 only for the Hellenic National Squad. Since then Katerina Giota has won at international level with Olympiacos Piraeus the golden medal of the

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, being the best blocker of that competition with 33 winning block points and the silver medal of the

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as well.
In domestic competitions, Giota has won 7 Hellenic Championships and 6 Hellenic Cups, being all these years a permanent member of her squad as central blocker. In January 2021 the Greek championship was uncertain whether it would continue due to covid-19 disease, and Olympiacos allowed their players to move abroad (despite their contracts) until next summer. Thus, Katerina Giota signed in

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, with which she won the 3rd place of the Hungarian championship 2020-21.

International career

In 2006, at the age of 16 Katerina Giota, when she was playing for Aris Thessaloniki, was selected for the Hellenic Junior Women's National team, but her first European appearance took place in the preliminary round of the 2008 Junior Women European Championship. Since 2010 she is a member of the Hellenic Women's National Team with participation in the preliminary round of the 2011 European Championship, and she remains a basic member of the National Squad up to now, having competed in the

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and

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, as well as in any other competition, such as the preliminary or final stages of European and World Championships, in the European League and in many friendlies as well. In

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and in

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Katerina Giota won the bronze medal in Golden European League, and in

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she won the silver medal as a permanent member of the Hellenic National Team.Silver medal of Hellenic National Team in 2018 Mediterranean Games
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