Just under two days until the official debut of coach Julio Velasco’s Italian national team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. An adventure that will be full of emotions, with the Italian selection in search of the first Olympic medal in its history, just over a month after the success in VNL.
Among the opponents of the girls led by Anna Danesi there will be fierce players, all sharing the same goal: the gold medal. Among those called up, there are several representatives of the old and new Serie A1 Tigotà, whose calendar was made official just yesterday. In fact, there will be as many as 34 athletes present in France who will be part of the next championship, accompanied by two coaches who will be protagonists in the Fineco Super Cup such as Daniele Santarelli (Turkey) and Stefano Lavarini (Poland) and an assistant coach such as Lorenzo Bernardi (Italy).
The representation of the teams sees the Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano and the Vero Volley Milano tied in the lead, with 8 players each, followed by the 6 of the Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76, the 5 of the Savino Del Bene Scandicci to then arrive at the Wash4Green Pinerolo (3 ), the Igor Gorgonzola Novara (2), the Megabox Ond. Savio Vallefoglia (1) and the Roma Volley (1).
Extending the analysis to past championships, the colony of athletes who have passed through the Serie A is greatly expanded, starting from the very large American representation with 12 athletes out of 13 protagonists of the last seasons up to a veteran of the top category like Caterina Bosetti and to his ex-partner in Novara Ebrar Karakurt.
Below is the complete list of athletes from the Serie A1 Tigotà present in Paris.
BRAZIL: Gabriela “Gabi” Braga Guimaraes (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Ana Carolina “Carol” Da Silva (Savino Del Bene Scandicci).
CHINA: Zhu Ting (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano).
FRANCE: Helena Cazaute (Vero Volley Milano); Juliette Gelin (Vero Volley Milano); Amandha Sylves (Wash4Green Pinerolo); Amelie Rotar (Roma Volley); Lucille Gicquel (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76).
ITALY: Carlotta Cambi (Wash4Green Pinerolo); Monica De Gennaro (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Alessia Orro (Vero Volley Milano); Anna Danesi (Vero Volley Milano); Myriam Sylla (Vero Volley Milano); Paola Egonu (Vero Volley Milano); Sarah Fahr (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Ekaterina Antropova (Savino Del Bene Scandicci); Gaia Giovannini (Megabox Ond. Savio Vallefoglia); Ilaria Spirito (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76); Marina Lubian (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Loveth Omoruyi (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76).
JAPAN: Mayu Ishikawa (Igor Gorgonzola Novara); Nanami Seki (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano).
NETHERLANDS: Indy Baijens (Savino Del Bene Scandicci); Anne Buijs (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76); Nika Daalderop (Vero Volley Milano); Sarah Van Aalen (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76).
POLAND: Martyna Lukasik (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Joanna Wolosz (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano); Malwina Smarzek (Wash4Green Pinerolo).
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Brenda Castillo (Savino Del Bene Scandicci).
SERBIA: Maja Ognjenovic (Savino Del Bene Scandicci); Hena Kurtagic (Vero Volley Milano); Maja Aleksic (Igor Gorgonzola Novara).
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Avery Skinner (Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76).
The women’s volleyball calendar at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Sunday 28 July
(Pool C) Italy-Dominican Republic at 9am
(Pool B) Poland-Japan at 1pm
Monday 29 July
(Pool C) Türkiye-Holland 9am
(Pool B) Brazil-Kenya at 1pm
(Pool A) United States-China at 5pm
(Pool A) France-Serbia at 9pm
Wednesday 31 July
(Pool A) United States-Serbia at 5pm
(Pool B) Poland-Kenya at 9pm
Thursday 1st August
(Pool C) Türkiye-Dominican Republic at 9am
(Pool B) Brazil-Japan at 1pm
(Pool C) Italy-Holland at 5pm
(Pool A) France-China at 9pm
Saturday 3 August
(Pool C) Netherlands-Dominican Republic at 9am
(Pool B) Japan-Kenya 1pm
Sunday 4 August
(Pool C) Italy-Türkiye 9am
(Pool A) France-United States at 1pm
(Pool A) China-Serbia at 5pm
(Pool B) Brazil-Poland at 9pm
Tuesday 6 August
Quarter Finals 9am; 1pm; 5pm; 9pm.
Thursday 8 August
Semifinals at 4pm and 8pm
Saturday 10 August
Bronze medal final at 5.15pm
Sunday 11 August
Gold medal final at 1pm
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