Daniele Lupo
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 Lupo (left) at the 2019 World Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 May 1991 (age 32) Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Daniele Lupo (born 6 May 1991) is an Italian beach volleyball player. He competed for Italy at the 2016 Summer Olympics[1] and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Along with partner, Paolo Nicolai, he won the silver medal in men's beach volleyball in 2016.[2] He was the flag bearer for Italy during the closing ceremony.[3]
Biography
Lupo was born in Rome to an Italian father and a Kazakh mother.[4]
Lupo debuted in the international beach volley circuit on 18 May 2010 in Rome, and obtained his first podium in a
2012 Olympic Games and ninth in the 2013 World Championships. In 2014 Lupo and Nicolai were the first Italians to win a European Championship in the tournament held in Cagliari
.
In 2015, Lupo was diagnosed with a bone tumor, but was completely cured. The following year, Lupo and Nicolai won the European Championship again, and they were the first Italian team ever to reach a final in the Summer Olympics.
References
- ^ "Daniele Lupo". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.
- ^ "Beach Volleyball: Men - Standings". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Paolo Carletti (24 July 2012). "Gli altri Balotelli Ecco i nuovi italiani" [The other Balotellis Here are the new Italians]. Messaggero Veneto (in Italian).
External links
- Daniele Lupo at the FIVB beach volleyball database
- Daniele Lupo at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Daniele Lupo at Olympedia
- Daniele Lupo at Olympics.com
- Daniele Lupo at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
