Daniele Lupo

Daniele Lupo
Daniele Lupo
	Lupo (left) at the 2019 World Championships
Personal information
Born	6 May 1991 (age 30); Rome, Italy
Honours
Men's beach volleyball
Representing Italy
Olympic Games

Daniele Lupo (born 6 May 1991) is an Italian beach volleyball player. He competed for Italy at the 2016 Summer Olympics^[1] and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Along with partner, Paolo Nicolai, he won the silver medal in men's beach volleyball in 2016.^[2] He was the flag bearer for Italy during the closing ceremony.^[3]

Biography[]

Lupo was born in Rome to an Italian father and a Kazakh mother.^[4]

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 Beijing in May 2012, together with Paolo Nicolai. 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 .

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 Summer Olympics.

References[]

^ "Daniele Lupo". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.
^ "Beach Volleyball: Men - Standings". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
^ Paolo Carletti (24 July 2012). "Gli altri Balotelli Ecco i nuovi italiani" [The other Balotellis Here are the new Italians]. Messaggero Veneto (in Italian).

External links[]

Daniele Lupo at FIVB beach volleyball database
Daniele Lupo at Beach Volleyball Database
Daniele Lupo at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)
Daniele Lupo at Olympedia

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[1] "Daniele Lupo". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.

[2] "Beach Volleyball: Men - Standings". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

[3] "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

[4] Paolo Carletti (24 July 2012). "Gli altri Balotelli Ecco i nuovi italiani" [The other Balotellis Here are the new Italians]. Messaggero Veneto (in Italian).

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