Matteo Piano
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| Born | 24 October 1990 Asti, Italy | ||||
| Height | 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) | ||||
| Weight | 101 kg (223 lb) | ||||
| Spike | 349 cm (137 in) | ||||
| Block | 320 cm (126 in) | ||||
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| Position | Middle blocker | ||||
| Current team | Revivre Milano | ||||
| Number | 11 | ||||
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Matteo Piano (born 24 October 1990) is an Italian volleyball player, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Revivre Milano. Matteo Piano has a standing reach of 209 cm. He was silver medalist at the 2016 Olympics and the 2015 World Cup, silver medalist at the European Championship 2013, and bronze medalist of the World League (2013, 2014).
Career
[edit]National team
[edit]Piano debuted with the Italy men's national volleyball team in 2013. In 2013 Italy, including Piano, won bronze medal of World League. In the same year he achieved silver medal of European Championship.[1] In 2014 he and his Italian teammates won bronze of World League held in Florence, Italy.[2] He was also part of the team that won the silver medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and in the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.
Sporting achievements
[edit]Clubs
[edit]National championships
[edit]- 2014/2015
Italian Cup, with Modena Volley - 2015/2016 Italian Cup, with DHL Modena
National team
[edit]- 2013
FIVB World League - 2013
CEV European Championship - 2014 FIVB World League
- 2015 FIVB World Cup
- 2016 Olympic Games
Individual
[edit]- 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – Best Middle Blocker[3]
References
[edit]- ^ ID=559&NewsID=15434&TagType=0&TagContent=0&NewsType=0&Paging=0&Sd=1/1/1900&Ed=1/1/1900 Russian giants add yet another title to their unique showcase - cev.lu - 29 September 2013
- ^ Italy claim second consecutive World League Finals bronze - fivb.org - 20 July 2014
- ^ "BRAZIL WIN RECORD FIFTH TITLE IN MEN'S WORLD GRAND CHAMPIONS CUP". FIVB.org. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
External links
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- FIVB profile
- LegaVolley player profile
- Matteo Piano at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Matteo Piano at Olympedia (archive)
- Matteo Piano at Olympics.com
- Matteo Piano at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- People from Asti
- Italian men's volleyball players
- Modena Volley players
- Olympic volleyball players for Italy
- Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Middle blockers
- Sportspeople from the Province of Asti
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen
- Italian volleyball biography stubs