Vivian Cunha

Vivian Cunha
portrait
birthday	June 14, 1980
place of birth	Belém (Pará), Brazil
size	1.79 m
Partner	2007, 2009 Ângela Lavalle 2008 Larissa França 2010–2012 Taiana Lima 2014–2015 Zinaida Lyubimova 2015 Raquel Ferreira 2016 Andressa Cavalcanti 2017 Andrezza Martins das Chagas
successes
2007 - victory FIVB Challenger Beijing 2008 - victory FIVB Open Guarujá 2008 - overall victory Circuito Banco do Brasil 2009 - 4th place FIVB Open Stare Jabłonki 2009 - 3rd place FIVB Open Den Haag 2010 - victory CEV Challenger Warna 2010 - 2nd place FIVB Grand Slam Klagenfurt 2010 - 4th place FIVB Open Åland 2011 - World Cup participation 2011 - 5th place FIVB Grand Slam Gstaad 2011 - 3rd place FIVB Open Québec 2015 - 9th European Games 2015 - 4 wins NVL
(As of November 27, 2018)

Vivian Danielle da Conceição Cunha (born June 14, 1980 in Belém ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player who also started for Azerbaijan .

Career

Cunha first played indoor volleyball from 1996 before starting beach volleyball in 2003. Since 2007 she has been competing in the national tournament series Circuito Banco do Brasil , in which she finished third in the overall standings in 2007, 2009 and 2011 and in 2008 she was the winner alongside Larissa França . She started on the FIVB World Tour in 2007 and 2009 with Ângela Lavalle and had some top ten results, including fourth place at the Open tournament in Stare Jabłonki and third place at the Open tournament in The Hague .

Cunha formed a new duo with Taiana Lima in 2010 . Cunha / Lima 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. Cunha then had to take a longer break because of a back injury.

In 2014 and 2015 she started alongside Ukrainian Zinaida Lyubimova for Azerbaijan. At the 2015 European Games in Baku , Cunha / Lyubimova finished ninth.

Web links

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