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Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Full name | Anna Vania Mello | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Italy | 27 February 1979||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Spike | 310 cm (120 in) | ||||||||||||||
Block | 278 cm (109 in) | ||||||||||||||
Volleyball information | |||||||||||||||
Position | Middle-blocker | ||||||||||||||
Number | 16 | ||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
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Anna Vania Mello (born 27 February 1979) is a volleyball player from Italy, who claimed the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2002 World Championship in Germany. There she played as a middle-blocker,[1] wearing the number #16 jersey. Vania Mello also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[2]
Honours
- 2000 Olympic Games — 9th place
- 2000 FIVB World Grand Prix — 7th place
- 2001 European Championship — 2nd place
- 2002 World Championship — 1st place
References
- ^ FIVB. "USA MEETS ITALY IN SUNDAY'S FINAL". September 14, 2002. Retrieved on June 2, 2013.
- ^ La Repubblica. "Ecco le 12 ragazze che andranno a Sydney". June 22, 2000. Retrieved on June 2, 2013.
External links
- Anna Vania Mello at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Anna Vania Mello at WorldofVolley
- Anna Vania Mello at Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian)
- Anna Vania Mello at Olympedia
- FIVB Profile
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Italian women's volleyball players
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate volleyball players in Spain
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players for Italy
- Middle blockers
- Italian expatriate volleyball players
- Sportspeople from the Province of Lecce
- Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Italian volleyball biography stubs