Giovane Gávio
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Full name | Giovane Farinazzo Gavio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | September 7, 1970 (age 53) Juiz de Fora, Brazil |
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Giovane Farinazzo Gavio (born September 7, 1970 in Juiz de Fora), known as Giovane, is a retired Brazilian volleyball coach and former player, who was a member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain by defeating The Netherlands (3-0) in the final.
Playing as an outside hitter, Gavio competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. Later on he started a career in beach volleyball. As of the present day, he is the head coach of Superliga's most recent champions, SESI São Paulo. He is the only Brazilian player (and second overall, after Javier Weber) to win the Superliga both as player and coach.
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References
- Official website (Portuguese)
- Profile[dead link] (English)
- Profile (Portuguese)
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Brazilian volleyball players
- Men's volleyball players
- Brazilian men's beach volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players of Brazil
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Brazil
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- People from Juiz de Fora
- Brazilian Olympic medalist stubs
- Brazilian volleyball biography stubs
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics