Elisângela Oliveira
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Full name | Elisângela Almeida de Oliveira | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Londrina, Paraná | 30 October 1978|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 302 cm (119 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 282 cm (111 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elisângela Almeida de Oliveira (born October 30, 1978 in Londrina) is a volleyball player.
She participated at the 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup. She competed for Brazil at the 2000 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal. She claimed the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 1999 Pan American Games. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She was champion of the South American Youth Championship in 1996 and 1999, won three medals at the Grand Prix, and won the gold medal at the Pan Winnipeg in 1999, .
Career[]
She began her volleyball career at 15 years old. She joined the Brazilian national team in 1996 and won a medal in the South American Youth Championship. The next year she competed in Brazilian Superliga Women's Volleyball, and her team finished in eighth place. In 1999 she joined the adult national team; she was 21 years old. That year her team competed in the BCV CUP, finishing in fourth place. Her team won the bronze medal in the Grand Prix and the Olympics the following year. Oliveira's team also won the bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics, after which she joined another volleyball team. Joining the club was controversial as she was five months pregnant. On May 17, 2005 her son, Lorenzo, was born. Only two months later, she began training again.
Clubs[]
Paraná Vôlei (1998–2001)
Minas Tênis Clube (2001–2003)
Paraná Vôlei (2003–2004)
(2004–2005)
(2005–2007)
Finasa Osasco (2007–2008)
Brusque (2008–2009)
Hisamitsu Springs (2009–2011)
SESI-SP (2011–2013)
(2013–2015)
(2015–2016)
Awards[]
Individuals[]
- 2005–06 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Server"
- 2008–09 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Server"
- 2010–11 Japanese V-League – "Best Server"
References[]
- (in Portuguese) UOL profile
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Brazilian women's volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players of Brazil
- Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Expatriate volleyball players in Thailand
- Brazilian expatriates in Thailand
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople
- Volleyball players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Brazilian Olympic medalist stubs
- Brazilian volleyball biography stubs