Fabiana Claudino

Fabiana Marcelino Claudino
portrait
Date of birth	January 24, 1985
place of birth	Belo Horizonte , Brazil
size	1.94 m
position	Middle block
societies
2002–2004 2004–2010 2010–2011 2011-	MRV Minas Rio de Janeiro VC (Rexona / Unilever) GRER Araçatuba (Vôlei Futuro) Fenerbahçe Universal
National team
	Brazil
successes
2003 2004 2006 2006 2007 2008 2008 2009 2010 2010 2012 2012	2nd place World Cup 1st place World Grand Prix 1st place World Grand Prix Vice World Champion in Japan 2nd place World Cup 1st World Grand Prix Gold Olympic Games Beijing 1st place World Grand Prix 2nd place World Grand Prix Vice World Champion in Japan Winner of the Champions League Gold Olympic Games London
As of August 12, 2012

Fabiana Marcelino Claudino (born January 24, 1985 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian volleyball player who made her national team debut in 2003 against Croatia.

Claudino represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. With the national team she won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012 . Also with the national team, she won the silver medal at the World Cup in Japan in 2003 and 2007 , the gold medal at the World Grand Prix in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009 and the silver medal at the 2007 Pan-American Games .

As a player, Claudino was voted best attacker at the 2006 Volleyball World Grand Prix . She was named best blocker in 2006 at the Pan-American Cup and in 2009 at the Volleyball World Grand Prix .

In 2011/12 she played for Fenerbahçe Universal in Turkey, with whom she won the Champions League .

Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Claudino was the first torchbearer on Brazilian soil and received it in Brasília from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile at olympic.org
2. ↑ Olympic flame in Brazil: Flickering flame in times of crisis at tagesschau.de, May 3, 2016 (accessed May 4, 2016).