Daniele Lupo (born 6 May 1991) is an Italian

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player. He competed for Italy at the 2016

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and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Along with partner,

Paolo Nicolai Paolo Nicolai (born 8 June 1988) is an Italian beach volleyball player. Biography Nicolai was born in Ortona, province of Chieti The province of Chieti ( it, provincia di Chieti; Abruzzese: ') is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. ...

, he won the silver medal in men's beach volleyball in 2016. He was the flag bearer for Italy during the closing ceremony.

Biography

Lupo was born in

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to an Italian father and a Kazakh mother. He debuted in the international beach volley circuit on 18 May 2010 in Rome, and obtained his first podium in a World Tour stage at

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in May 2012, together with

. The two finished fifth in the 2012 Olympic Games and ninth in the 2013 World Championships. In 2014 Lupo and Nicolai were the first Italians to win a European Championship in the tournament held in Cagliari. In 2015 he was diagnosed with a bone tumor but was completely cured. The following year, Lupo and Nicolai won the European Championship again, and they were the first Italian team ever to reach a final in the

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* * * * * 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Rome Italian beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic beach volleyball players of Italy Italian people of Kazakhstani descent Olympic silver medalists for Italy Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in beach volleyball Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Italy-volleyball-bio-stub