Oreol Camejo Durruthy (born July 22, 1986) is a
volleyball
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player from
Cuba
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, who plays as an outside hitter for Turkish club
Ziraat Bankası
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History
During the first half of the 1 ...
. He became ''Best Setter'' at the first
2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in
Düsseldorf
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, where Cuba ended up in second place and missed qualification for the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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,
PR China
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.
Career
Camejo won the bronze medal in the
2005 America's Cup and placed 15th place in the
2006 FIVB World Championship. He won the bronze medal in the
2007 America's Cup
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As per the Deed of Gift o ...
. With his national team he did not qualify for the
2008 Summer Olympics after placing second in the qualifying tournament.
In 2018 Camejo was given a Russian citizenship while he was playing for Russian club
Zenit Saint Petersburg
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.
References
External links
FIVB profile
1986 births
Living people
Cuban men's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
Place of birth missing (living people)
Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
VC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
Naturalised citizens of Russia
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
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