Luca Vettori (born 26 April 1991) is an Italian

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player, a member of Italy's men's national volleyball team and the Italian club

Modena Volley Modena Volley is a professional volleyball team based in Modena, Italy. It has played in the highest level of the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 1968. It is the most successful Italian club, having won the national league tw ...

. He was a silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2013 European Championship, and two times bronze medalist in the World League (

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). With Modena, he won the Italian title for clubs in 2015-2016.

Career

National team

He debuted with the Italy men's national volleyball team in 2012. In 2013 Italy, including Vettori, won the bronze medal in the World League. In the same year he achieved the silver medal in European Championship. In 2014 he and his Italian teammates won the bronze in World League held in

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- fivb.org - 20-07-2014 He was also part of the team that won the silver medal in the

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and in the

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Sporting achievements

Clubs

Club World Championship

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, with

Trentino Volley Trentino Volley is a professional Italian volleyball team based in Trento, in northern Italy. It plays in the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 2000. It has won four times the Italian Volleyball League, the Italian Cup, the Ita ...

CEV Challenge Cup

2012/2013, with

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National championships

* 2012/2013 Silver medal with cup

Italian Championship, with

* 2013/2014 Simple gold cup

Italian Cup, with

* 2014/2015 Simple gold cup

Italian Cup, with

* 2015/2016 Simple gold cup

Italian Cup, with DHL Modena * 2015/2016 Simple gold cup

Italian SuperCup, with DHL Modena * 2015/2016 Gold medal with cup

Italian Championship, with DHL Modena

National team

* 2013

FIVB World League * 2013 Silver medal with cup

CEV European Championship * 2014 Bronze medal with cup

FIVB World League * 2015 Silver medal with cup

FIVB World Cup * 2016 Silver medal with cup

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Individual

* 2009 FIVB U19 World Championship - Best Scorer * 2013 CEV European Championship - Best Spiker

References

External links

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1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Parma Italian men's volleyball players Modena Volley players Trentino Volley players Olympic volleyball players for Italy Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Opposite hitters Italian expatriate volleyball players Italian expatriate sportspeople in France Italian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate volleyball players in China Expatriate volleyball players in France {{Italy-volleyball-bio-stub