Emanuele Birarelli

Emanuele Birarelli (born 8 February 1981) is an Italian volleyball player, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Italian club Sir Safety Perugia, silver medalist of 2016 Summer Olympics, bronze medalist of 2012 Summer Olympics and participant of the Olympic Games 2008 Summer Olympics, World League (2013, 2014) and silver medalist of European Championship (2011, 2013).

Birarelli during the match with Copra Elior Piacenza on October 2, 2011.
Emanuele Birarelli
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1981-02-08) 8 February 1981
Senigallia, Italy
Height2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight95 kg (209 lb)
Spike340 cm (130 in)
Block316 cm (124 in)
Volleyball information
PositionMiddle blocker
Current teamSir Safety Perugia
Number18
Career
YearsTeams
1995–1999Pallavolo Falconara
1999–2000Bottega Colbordolo
2000–2002Pallavolo Falconara
2002–2003Dorica Pallavolo Ancona
2005–2006Pineto Volley
2006–2007BluVolley Verona
2007–2015Itas Diatec Trentino
2015–Sir Safety Perugia
National team
2008–Italy
Honours
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2012 LondonTeam
European Championship
2011 Austria/Czech Republic
2013 Denmark/Poland
World League
2013 Mar del Plata
2014 Florence

Career

Birarelli was born at Senigallia. He debuted in the Italian top championship in 1998 for Pallavolo Falconara. He remained there until 2003, when he was diagnosed an arm ischemia which forced him away from the field for two years.

He returned to play volleyball in 2005, first at Pineto, then for Verona and, from 2007, for Trentino Volley, with which he won an Italian national title in 2008. In the same year he debuted for Italy's national team. In 2009, he won the CEV Champions League with Trentino Volley, a feat he repeated the following year. He achieved bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2015, he left Trentino Volley after eight seasons and went to another Italian club Sir Safety Perugia.[1] He was a member of the Italy at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won silver medal after lost finale against Brazil. Birarelli received individual award for the Best Middle Blocker.[2]

Sporting achievements

CEV Champions League

FIVB Club World Championship

National championship

National team

Individual

References
  1. Market, the final transactions and the roster for the season 2015/16 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine - trentinovolley.it - 22-07-2015
  2. E. Birarelli at Yahoo - Sports 2016
Awards
Preceded by
Marcin Możdżonek		 Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB World League
2013
ex aequo Dmitriy Muserskiy		 Succeeded by
David Lee
Lucas Saatkamp
Preceded by
Russell Holmes		 Best Blocker of
FIVB Club World Championship
2012

2013
ex aequo Matteo Burgsthaler

 Succeeded by
Robertlandy Simón
José Santos Júnior
Preceded by
-		 Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
2013
ex aequo Maxwell Holt		 Succeeded by
Matteo Piano
Lucas Saatkamp
Preceded by
-		 Best Middle Blocker of
Olympic Games
2016
ex aequo Artem Volvich		 Succeeded by
TBD
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