Daniele Lupo

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Daniele Lupo Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday May 6, 1991
place of birth Rome, Italy
size 1.95 m
partner 2008–2010 various
2011 Andrea Tomatis
since 2011 Paolo Nicolai
World ranking Position 10
successes
2012 - Olympic fifth in
2013 - World Cup ninth in
2014 - European champion
2016 - European champion
2016 - Olympic silver
2017 - European champion
(As of June 18, 2019)

Daniele Lupo (born May 6, 1991 in Rome ) is an Italian beach volleyball player . He became European champion in 2014, 2016 and 2017 and won the Olympic silver medal in 2016.

Career

Lupo reached ninth place with Francesco Montinaro at the U19 World Cup in The Hague in 2008 . In the same competition he was fifth in Alanya in 2009 with Tiziano Andreatta . He also finished seventh at the U20 European Championship in Greece with Alberto Bigarelli in 2009 . At the U21 World Cup in Blackpool , the duo came in ninth place. With Francesco Vanni , he played a World Tour tournament for the first time in 2010 at the Grand Slam in Rome . In the same year he finished 13th with Giuseppe Ottaviani at the U20 European Championships in Catania . With Andreatta he was ninth at the U21 World Cup in Alanya. On the World Tour 2011 initially two open tournaments with Paolo Nicolai . At the World Cup in Rome he competed with Andrea Tomatis and was eliminated as third in the group after the preliminary round. Afterwards Lupo / Tomatis played the Grand Slams in Gstaad and Moscow as well as the Niechorze Open.

Then Lupo formed a duo with Nicolai again. In Stare Jabłonki and Klagenfurt, Nicolai / Lupo finished ninth each. At the EM in Kristiansand they won only one set in the preliminary round and were eliminated early in the group as the bottom of the group. On the World Tour, however, they stayed in the top ten as seventh in Åland and fifth in The Hague. At the beginning of the 2012 season they were fourth in Mysłowice and ninth in Shanghai , before reaching a final in Beijing for the first time; they were subject to Nummerdor / Schuil. They achieved further top placements as third in Gstaad and ninth in Klagenfurt. They qualified for the Olympic Games in London via the Olympic rankings . There they reached the third-placed playoffs in the round of 16, which they won against the US duo Rogers / Dalhausser . In the quarterfinals they lost to Numbersdor / Schuil and were fifth. In the very first tournament of the 2013 World Tour , Nicolai / Lupo made it to the final, which they lost to Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal . After finishing ninth in Shanghai, they finished third in Corrientes and ninth again in Rome. World Cup in Stare Jabłonki they won their preliminary group and the first knockout game before they were eliminated in the round of 16 against Herrera / Gavira. On the tour they came third in Long Beach and Xiamen , fourth in the Klagenfurt Masters and ninth several times.

The first two tournaments of the 2014 season in Fuzhou and Shanghai they won against Alison / Bruno and Samoilovs / Šmēdiņš . At the European Championships in Quartu Sant'Elena , they won their preliminary group and got into the final without losing any further set. There, like in Shanghai, they met the Latvian duo and became European champions with a tiebreak win. At the subsequent Grand Slam in Moscow, they finished fourth. They reached another final at their last FIVB tournament of the year in Klagenfurt against Alison / Bruno. They started the 2015 World Tour with three ninth places. At the World Cup in the Netherlands, they were second to the Russians Semyonov / Krassilnikow in the first knockout game . Then they finished fifth in Gstaad Major and ninth in Yokohama . At the European Championships in Klagenfurt , the defending champions were dethroned in the round of 16 by their compatriots Ranghieri / Carambula . Later Nicolai / Lupo finished third at the Sotschi Open and fourth at the CEV Masters in Milan . They finished the season in fifth place at the World Tour Final in Fort Lauderdale .

They lost their first final of the World Tour 2016 in Vitória against Alison / Bruno. In Doha they finished fifth and at the Fuzhou Open they were again in the final, this time against Dalhausser / Lucena . Then they won the Sochi Open against Semjonow / Krassilnikow. They finished fifth in Moscow. At the European Championships in Biel / Bienne they won their preliminary group despite a defeat against the German Böckermann / Flüggen . With three wins in the knockout round, they reached the final and were European champions for the second time against Semjonow / Krassilnikow. They qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro via the Olympic rankings . Like four years before, they reached the knockout phase via the lucky loser game. They won the Italian duel against Carambula / Ranghieri as well as the quarter and semi-finals against the Russian duo Ljamin / Barsuk and their competitors from the European Championship final. In the Olympic final they had to admit defeat to Alison / Bruno and thus won the silver medal.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of June 17, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Lupo, Daniele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy