Steve Timmons

Steve Timmons
portrait
birthday	November 29, 1958
place of birth	Newport Beach, USA
size	1.96 m
Indoor volleyball
societies
1990-1992	Il Messaggero Ravenna
National team
1983-1992	A national team
successes
1984 - Olympic Champion 1985 - World Cup winner 1986 - World Champion 1986 - Silver Goodwill Games 1988 - Olympic Champion 1992 - Olympic bronze
beach volleyball
partner	1987–1989 Charles Kiraly 1990–1993 Adam Johnson 1993 John Hanley
successes
1989 - Winner Open Enoshima
As of August 24, 2011

Steven Dennis "Steve" Timmons (born November 29, 1958 in Newport Beach , California ) is a retired American volleyball and beach volleyball player . He was world champion and two-time Olympic champion .

Career

Steve Timmons began volleyball at Newport Harbor High School , then played at Orange Coast College, and finally at the University of Southern California . He played for the US national team at three consecutive Olympic Games and won one medal each: two golds ( 1984 in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul ) and one bronze ( 1992 in Barcelona ). He was also world cup winner in Japan in 1985 and world champion in France in 1986 as well as silver medalist at the Goodwill Games in Moscow. Timmons was one of the first players to successfully practice the backfield attack . From 1990 to 1992 Timmons also played for the Italian top club Il Messaggero Ravenna , with which he won the volleyball club world championship in 1991 and was Italian runner-up in 1992.

From 1987 to 1994 Steve Timmons also played beach volleyball successfully on the AVP Tour and the FIVB World Tour . The highlight here was the victory at the FIVB Open in Enoshima with his teammate from the national team Charles Kiraly .

In 1998 Steve Timmons was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Private

Steve Timmons has been married to actress Debbe Dunning for a second time since 1997 . The two have a daughter and a son. Before that, between 1990 and 1993 he was married to the sports business woman Jeanie Buss , who later appeared naked in Playboy, among other things .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.