Riccardo Lione

Riccardo Lione
Riccardo Lione 2012
portrait
birthday	April 13, 1972
place of birth	Rome, Italy
size	1.97 m
partner	1995, 2008 Fabio Galli 1996 Gianni Mascagna 1996 Davide Sanguanins 1996–1998 Andrea Ghiurghi 1999 Matteo de Cecco 2001–2002, 2008 Eugenio Amore 2005–2008 Matteo Varnier
successes
2004 - Italian champion 2005 - Italian champion 2008 - Olympic participant
(As of June 27, 2014)

Riccardo Lione (born April 13, 1972 in Rome ) is a former Italian beach volleyball player .

Career

After he had already completed two tournaments, Lione played in 1996 first with Gianni Mascagna and then with Davide Sanguanins . At the end of the year he reached the top ten for the first time at the world series tournament in Durban with his new partner Andrea Giurghi . This was followed by two fifth places at the Alanya Open 1997 and the Lignano Open 1998. The following year Lione was unsuccessful with Matteo de Cecco . In 2001 he competed with Eugenio Amore and reached the first main round of the 2001 World Cup , in which the Italians failed in the tiebreak against the Swiss Laciga brothers.

In 2004 and 2005 Lione was Italian champion and returned to the international tournaments at the side of Matteo Varnier . At the European Championships 2005 , the new duo lost in the third round against the Swiss Egger / Laciga and then eliminated in the tie- break against the Spaniards Garcia Thompson / Luna . In the same year Lione / Varnier finished fifth in Athens and fourth in Acapulco . In 2006 they achieved further top ten results. At the European Championships in The Hague , however, they said goodbye early after two defeats against the Czechs Biza / Kubala . In 2007 they were eliminated in the preliminary round of the World Cup in Gstaad and had to admit defeat to the Germans Klemperer / Koreng and the Austrians Gosch / Horst at the EM in Valencia .

After Lione had reached fifth place in Stare Jabłonki with Varnier in 2008 , he competed with Amore at the Olympic tournament in Beijing . There the Italians could not win a set in the group games. Lione then played two open tournaments in Mallorca and in 2009 in Rome before ending his international career.

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Riccardo Lione in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )