Gabriela Perez del Solar

Gabriela Perez del Solar
2012 in the Peruvian Congress
portrait
Date of birth	July 10, 1968
place of birth	Ica , Peru
size	1.94 m
position	Middle block
societies
1986–1988 1988–1989 1989–1992 1992 1992–1993 1993–1997 1997–1999 1999–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004	Club de Regatas Lima Pallavolo Reggio Calabria Olimpia Teodora Ravenna Alianza Lima Pallavolo Femminile Matera Volley Modena Ito Yokado Tokyo Foppapedretti Bergamo Olimpia Teodora Ravenna Vicenza Volley
National team
1983-1994	Peruvian national team
successes
1984 1985 1986 1987 1987 1988 1989 1989 1990 1990 1990 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1992 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994-1997 1995-1997 2000 2001 2001 2002	Olympic fourth South America champion World bronze medalist Silver Pan American Games South America champion Olympic silver South America champion World Cup Fifth Italian champion Second European Champion Clubs' Cup World Cup Sixth Italian champion and cup winner Third European Champions Cup Bronze Pan American Games South America runner- World Cup Fifth champion European Cup Champion Peruvian Champion Italian Champion and cup winner European cup winner South American cup Italian vice champion European cup winner cup winner Champions League Italian vice champion Second CEV cup
As of July 6, 2020

Gabriela Lourdes "Gaby" Pérez del Solar Cuculiza (born July 10, 1968 in Ica ) is a Peruvian national volleyball player and politician .

Volleyball career

Pérez del Solar took part in the Olympic Games twice in a row with the Peruvian national team. At the age of 16, she finished fourth in Los Angeles in 1984 and won the silver medal in Seoul in 1988 . The middle blocker finished third at the 1986 World Cup in Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1990 World Cup in China . She was also four times South American champion and came in the Pan American Games twice in the medal ranks.

At club level, Pérez del Solar first played in Lima at Club de Regatas and in the 1992 season finale at Alianza, where she won the national championship title. Apart from that, she worked for top Italian clubs (apart from an interlude from 1997 to 1999 in Japan with Ito Yokado Tokyo): Pallavolo Reggio Calabria , Olimpia Teodora Ravenna , Pallavolo Femminile Matera , Volley Modena , Foppapedretti Bergamo and Vicenza Volley . She won the Italian championship three times, the Italian Cup twice and, at European level, the Champions League and the Cup Winners' Cup three times .

Pérez del Solar has received many awards as “Most Valuable Player” ( MVP ), “Best Attacker”, “Best Block Player” etc. In 2010 she was inducted into the " Volleyball Hall of Fame ".

politician

Pérez del Solar was a Peruvian Congresswoman from 2006 to 2013 .

Private

Pérez del Solar is married and has two daughters.

Web links

• Gabriela Pérez del Solar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at volleybox.net (English)
• Hall of Fame (English)
• Profile at the Italian Volleyball League (Italian)
• Profile at the European Volleyball Federation CEV (English)