Dante Amaral

Dante Amaral
Personal information
Full nameDante Guimarães Santos do Amaral
Born30 September 1980 (1980-09-30) (age 45)
Itumbiara, GO, Brazil
Height201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Spike345 cm (136 in)
Block327 cm (129 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside spiker
Current clubRetired
Career
YearsTeams
1999–2000Três Corações
2000–2001Suzano São Paulo
2001–2002Minas Tênis Clube
2002–2005Pallavolo Modena
2005–2008Panathinaikos V.C.
2008–2011VC Dynamo Moscow
2011–2012RJX
2012–2014Panasonic Panthers
2014–2015Funvic Taubaté
2015–2016EC São José
2016–2017PAOK Thessaloniki
2017–2018Funvic Taubaté
National team
1999–2013 Brazil
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 2 0
World Championship 3 0 0
World Cup 2 0 1
World Grand Champions Cup 0 1 0
World League 7 3 0
Pan American Games 1 0 1
Total 14 6 2
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2004 AthensTeam
Silver medal – second place2008 BeijingTeam
Silver medal – second place2012 LondonTeam
World Championship
Gold medal – first place2002 ArgentinaTeam
Gold medal – first place2006 JapanTeam
Gold medal – first place2010 ItalyTeam
World Cup
Gold medal – first place2003 JapanTeam
Gold medal – first place2007 JapanTeam
Bronze medal – third place2011 JapanTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
Silver medal – second place2001 JapanTeam
World League
Gold medal – first place2001 KatowiceTeam
Gold medal – first place2003 MadridTeam
Gold medal – first place2004 RomeTeam
Gold medal – first place2005 BelgradeTeam
Gold medal – first place2006 MoscowTeam
Gold medal – first place2007 KatowiceTeam
Gold medal – first place2010 CórdobaTeam
Silver medal – second place2002 Belo HorizonteTeam
Silver medal – second place2011 GdańskTeam
Silver medal – second place2013 Mar del PlataTeam
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2007 Rio de JaneiroTeam
Bronze medal – third place2003 Santo DomingoTeam
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place2011 CuiabáTeam
Gold medal – first place2013 Cabo FrioTeam

Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980) is a Brazilian former professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring 2.01 metres (6 ft 7 in) he played in the position of outside hitter.[1] He was born in Itumbiara.[2]

Biography

Career

Dante began his professional career in 1999 with the club Tres Corações. After another two years at Brazilian clubs Suzano São Paulo and Minas Belo Horizonte, in 2002 he got transferred to Italy, playing with Pallavolo Modena, where he won the CEV Cup. In 2005 he joined Greek team Panathinaikos. He won the Greek championship in 2006 and the Greek cup and supercup in 2007.

Dante was also a member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team since 1999. Among the titles he has won with Brazil is the Olympic gold medal in 2004[3] and the World Championship in 2002 and 2006. In both the 2004 Olympic Games and 2006 World Championship he was nominated as the best spiker, while he was the best blocker in 2005 World League.

Amaral won the Best Spiker award in the 2011 South American Championship. His team won the gold medal and the 2011 World Cup berth.[4]

Sporting achievements

Clubs

CEV Champions League

CEV Challenge Cup

National team

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Team Roster – Brazil". fivb.org. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "AMARAL, Dante". Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008.
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dante (full name: Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral)". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  4. ↑ FIVB (25 September 2011). "Brazil book place in World Cup with South American Championship win". Retrieved 29 September 2011.
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