Wilma Salas
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| Full name | Wilma Salas Rosell | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba,  Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 March 1991 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 321 cm (126 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 309 cm (122 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing Spiker / Opposite | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current club |  Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Wilma Salas Rosell (born 9 March 1991) is a Cuban female volleyball player. She was part of the Cuba women's national volleyball team. She currently plays in Hellenic Volley League for Olympiacos Piraeus.
She participated at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.[1], when she used to play with Santiago de Cuba.
Career
[edit]Wilma Salas' career started at the age of 16 in Cuban championship, playing for the local team of Santiago de Cuba, where she remained until 2012. After two years of inactivity, she returned to the field in the 2014-15 season in Azerbaijan Super League, when she signed her first professional contract with Rabitə Baku,[2] winning the championship. She also received the local sporting nationality, becoming also known as Wilma Aslihanova. In the following championship she moved to Turkey, where she defended the colors of Çanakkale, in Turkish League, also remaining there in the 2016-17 season, playing with the Halkbank Ankara shirt.
For the 2018-19 championship Wilma Salas played for Cuneo Volley,[3] in the Italian League. Then she moved to Philippines for the end of the season, where she played in the local championship with the Petro Gazz Angels.[4] The following season she moved to the Polish club of Chemik Police,[5] winning one Super Cup, two Polish Cups and two league titles, although she did not play most of the 2020-21 season due to a serious knee injury, which occurred in the initial part of the championship.[6]
In the 2021-22 season Salas returned to the field in Hellenic Volley League for Greek champions Olympiacos Piraeus.[7]
International career
[edit]In 2008 Wilma Salas made her debut in the Cuban national team, with which a year later she became the protagonist of the 2010 world championship qualifiers, gaining access to the world championship and being awarded as the best attacker and best server of the tournament. Later that year she won the bronze medal at the 2009 North American Championship, and in 2011 she won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. In 2012 she wore the national team shirt for the last time, winning a bronze medal again, this time in the Pan-American Cup.
Sporting achievements
[edit]National Team
[edit]- 2010
Montreux Volley Masters - 2011
Montreux Volley Masters - 2011 Pan American Games
- 2012 Pan-American Cup
Clubs
[edit]International competitions
[edit]- 2015 Women's CEV Cup, with Rabita Baku
- 2016
BVA Cup with Çanakkale Belediyespor
National championships
[edit]- 2009/2010 Cuban Championship, with Santiago de Cuba
- 2010/2011 Cuban Championship, with Santiago de Cuba
- 2014/2015
Azerbaijan Championship, with Rabita Baku - 2019/2020 Polish Championship, with Chemik Police
- 2020/2021 Polish Championship, with Chemik Police
National trophies
[edit]- 2019 Polish Super Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2020 Polish Super Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2019/2020 Polish Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2020/2021 Polish Cup, with Chemik Police
Individual awards
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Cuban volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Salas in Rabitə Baku". www.volleywood.net. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wilma Salas in Cuneo Volley". volleymob.com. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wilma Salas in Petro Gazz Angels". www.philstar.com. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wilma Salas in Chemik Police". www.philstar.com. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wilma Salas' serious injury". worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wilma Salas in Olympiacos Piraeus". www.olympiacossfp.gr. Retrieved 28 November 2021.(in Greek)
External links
[edit]- Profile - clubs - titles at women.volleybox.net
- Profile at www.fivb.org
- Olympiacos team 2021-22 at cev.eu
- Wilma Salas in Olympiacos Piraeus at www.athina984.gr
- Sslas in CEV Champions League at cev.eu
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Cuban women's volleyball players
- Olympiacos SFP (women's volleyball) players
- Volleyball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Opposite hitters
- Outside hitters
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Cuban women
- Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
- Petro Gazz Angels players