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Ihosvany Hernández
Ihosvany Hernández Rivera (born , in Havana) is a Cuban former volleyball player and three-time Olympian who played with the Cuban men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 1992, 1996, and the 2000 Summer Olympics. He helped the Cuban team win the silver medal at the 1990 FIVB World Championship and the bronze medal at the 1998 FIVB World Championship. Hernández also helped the Cuban national team win gold medals at the 1991 and 1999 Pan American Games, and a bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games. 2001 Defection In 2001, Hernández was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders, Belgium for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum. The other players were Leonel Marshall, Jorge Luis Hernández, Ángel Dennis, Yasser Romero, and Ramón Gato Ramón Gato Moya (born ) is a former Cuban male volleyball player. He was part of the Cuba men's natio ...
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Havana, Cuba
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba
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The city has a population of 2.3million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the
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Volleyball At The 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Tournament
The men's tournament in volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics was the 9th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, United States from 21 July to 4 August 1996. Qualification Pools composition Rosters Venues Preliminary round *The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals. Pool A Pool B Final round Quarterfinals 5th–8th semifinals Semifinals 7th place match 5th place match Bronze medal match Gold medal match Final standing Medalists Awards *Most Valuable Player : Bas van de Goor *Best Spiker : Bas van de Goor Sebastiaan Jacques Henri "Bas" van de Goor (born 4 September 1971, in Oss) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, ...
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Volleyball Players At The 1996 Summer Olympics
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 rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typ ...
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Cuban Men's Volleyball Players
Cuban may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban citizen, a person who is part of the Cuban population, see Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban cigar, often referred to as "Cubans" * Cuban culture * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich * Cuban-eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * Cuban Missile Crisis * List of Cubans * * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Kuban (other) Kuban is a geographic region in Southern Russia. Kuban may also refer to: Places Russia *Kuban (river), a river in Russia *Kuban steppe, a geographic region * Kuban Oblast (1860–1917), an ...
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1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheik ...
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Ramón Gato
Ramón Gato Moya (born ) is a former Cuban male volleyball player. He was part of the Cuba men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, finishing 7th. He played with La Fenice Volley Isernia. See also * Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cuba competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Australia's largest city, Sydney. 229 competitors, 147 men and 82 women, took part in 135 events in 24 sports. Medalists Archery Cuba's first appearance in the Olympic archery competition ... References External links profileat ''sports-reference.com'' 1973 births Living people Cuban men's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Cuba Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban people {{Cuba-volleyba ...
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Ángel Dennis
Ángel Dennis Diaz (born 13 June 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. Biography He played for IVECO Palermo from 1998 to 2000. With Cuba national team, he won a World League in 1998 and an America's Cup in 2001, before abandoning his country to move to establish himself in Italy in the latter year. After a period of inactivity, he returned to play in 2003-2004 for Latina Volley, before moving to Lube Banca Marche Macerata the following year, after a short stint in Qatar. With Lube he won a top national division and an Italian Supercup in 2006, and two CEV Cups (2005–2006). In 2006 he married Italian volleyball player Simona Rinieri, by which he got Italian nationality. In 2017, he signed a contract with Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional fo .. ...
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Leonel Marshall Jr
Leonel is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Leonel Altobelli (born 1986), Argentine footballer * Leonel Álvarez (born 1965), former Colombian football defensive midfielder *Leonel Bastos or Lionel Bastos, singer, songwriter and music producer *Leonel Beaudoin or Léonel Beaudoin (1924–2021), Canadian politician and insurance agent *Leonel Brizola (1922–2004), Brazilian politician * Leonel Campos, baseball player * Leonel Cárcamo (born 1965), retired Salvadoran football player *Leonel Conde, retired Uruguayan football goalkeeper *Fernando Leonel Cortés (born 1988), Mexican football striker *Leonel Cubas (died 2007), football player from El Salvador * Leonel da Silva Araujo, also known as Leonel (born 1986), football player * Léonel de Moustier (1882–1945), French businessman and politician *Leonel Fernández (born 1953), Dominican lawyer, academic, President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000, and from 2004 to 2012 *Leonel Galeano (born 1991), Arg ...
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Flanders, Belgium
Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. The official capital of Flanders is the City of Brussels, although the Brussels-Capital Region that includes it has an independent regional government. The powers of the government of Flanders consist, among others, of economic affairs in the Flemish Region and the community aspects of Flanders life in Brussels, such as Flemish culture and education. Geographically, Flanders is mainly flat, and has a small section of coast on the North Sea. It borders the French department of Nord to the south-west near the coast, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland, North Brabant an ...
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1995 Pan American Games
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Unabomber Manifesto rect 0 200 300 400 Oklahoma City bombing rect 300 200 600 400 Srebrenica massacre rect 0 400 200 600 Space Shuttle Atlanti ...
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