Taiana Lima

Taiana Lima
portrait
birthday	May 27, 1984
place of birth	Fortaleza, Brazil
size	1.75 m
Partner	2002–2003, 2016 Juliana Felisberta da Silva 2004–2005 Carolina Solberg Salgado 2007–2009 various 2010–2012 Vivian Cunha 2013–2014, 2019 Talita Antunes da Rocha 2014–2015 Fernanda Berti Alves 2017 Elize Maia 2018 Carolina Horta Máximo
World ranking	Position 26
successes
2002 - Junior World Champion 2004 - Junior World Champion 2013 - Winner FIVB World Tour (5 Grand Slam victories) 2014 - Victory Grand Slam Den Haag 2015 - Vice World Champion 2018 - 2nd place FIVB 5-Star Fort Lauderdale
(As of December 31, 2018)

Taiana de Souza Lima (born May 27, 1984 in Fortaleza ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player .

Career

Lima won the Junior World Championship in Catania in 2002 with Juliana Felisberta da Silva . The following year Lima / Juliana finished fifth at the same tournament in Saint-Quay-Portrieux . In 2004 Lima won the junior title again with Carolina Solberg Salgado in Porto Santo . A year later she completed her first open tournament on the FIVB World Tour in Milan . After Lima only appeared sporadically in the following years with various partners, she formed a new duo with Vivian Cunha in 2010 . Lima / Vivian won the Challenger tournament in Varna and reached the final of the Klagenfurt Grand Slam. Later they finished fourth in Åland . At the 2011 World Cup in Rome they prevailed in the preliminary round without losing a set before the German duos Holtwick / Semmler and Brink-Abeler / Green ; in the first knockout round they had to admit defeat to the US team Fendrick / Hanson . Later that year they finished fifth in Gstaad , third in Québec and seventh in Phuket . In 2012 they started with two ninth places in Brasília and Shanghai . This was the result of their last joint appearance in Klagenfurt. From 2013 to mid-2014 Lima played with Talita Antunes da Rocha . At the World Cup in Stare Jabłonki Talita / Lima reached the main round, where they were eliminated against the German Ludwig / Walkenhorst . After five tournament wins, Talita / Lima won the FIVB World Tour 2013 . Fernanda Berti was Alves Lima's new partner since July 2014 , with whom she won the second joint FIVB tournament in The Hague . In 2015, the Brazilians became vice world champions in the Netherlands . In 2016 Lima started again with her former partner Juliana Felisberta da Silva. In 2017 Elize Maia was her new partner. At the World Cup in Vienna , Lima and Elize Maia won their preliminary group and were only eliminated in the round of 16 against their compatriots Maria Antonelli / Carol . In 2018 Lima played alongside Carolina Horta Máximo . In 2019, Talita Antunes is her partner again.

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of December 3, 2018)