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Italian volleyball player

Paola Cardullo
Personal information
Full name Paola Cardullo
Nationality Italian
Born (1982-03-18) 18 March 1982 (age 42)Omegna, Italy
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Spike 275 cm (108 in)
Block 268 cm (106 in)
Volleyball information
Position Libero
Current club Italy Polisportiva Filottrano Pallavolo
Number 10
National team
2001 – 2014Italy
Honours Women's Volleyball Representing Italy FIVB World Championship Gold medal – first place 2002 Germany Team World Grand Champions Cup Gold medal – first place 2009 Tokyo/Fukuoka Team FIVB World Cup Gold medal – first place 2007 Japan Team FIVB World Grand Prix Silver medal – second place 2004 Reggio Calabria Team Silver medal – second place 2005 Sendai Team Bronze medal – third place 2006 Reggio Calabria Team Bronze medal – third place 2008 Yokohama Team European Championship Gold medal – first place 2007 Belgium-Luxembourg Team Gold medal – first place 2009 Poland Team Silver medal – second place 2001 Bulgaria Team Silver medal – second place 2005 Croatia Team

Paola Cardullo (born 18 March 1982 in Omegna) is a volleyball player from Italy, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. There she was named Best Libero of the tournament.

Cardullo also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where Italy ended up in fifth place and she was named Best Libero at the end of the Olympic tournament.

She won the bronze medal at the 2007–08 CEV Indesit Champions League with Asystel Novara and also was individually awarded Best Libero.[1] In the 2012-12 champions league, Cardullo played with the French club RC Cannes, capturing the silver medal and the Best Libero award.

Cardullo played with her national team at the 2014 World Championship.[2] There her team ended up in fourth place after losing 2-3 to Brazil the bronze medal match.[3]

  1. ^ CEV. "Second Indesit Champions' League trophy for Colussi PERUGIA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
  2. ^ "USA win first World Championship title, China and Brazil complete the podium". Milan, Italy: FIVB. 2014-05-11. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  3. ^ Carneiro, Leandro (2014-10-12). "Brasil passa sufoco e quase toma virada, mas conquista bronze ante Itália". UOL (in Portuguese). Milan, Italy. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
Awards
Preceded byRussia Yevgeniya Artamonova Most Valuable Player of FIVB World Grand Prix 2003 Succeeded byUnited States Logan Tom

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