Emanuele Birarelli

Emanuele Birarelli
Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born (1981-02-08) 8 February 1981
Senigallia, Italy
Height 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight 95 kg (209 lb)
Spike 340 cm (130 in)
Block 316 cm (124 in)
Volleyball information
Position Middle blocker
Current team Sir Safety Perugia
Number 18
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 Janeiro Team
2012 London Team
European Championship
2011 Austria/Czech Republic
2013 Denmark/Poland
World League
2013 Mar del Plata
2014 Florence

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, a bronze medalist of the Olympic Games London 2012, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and winner silver medal in 2016 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.

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.

In 2015 he left Trentino Volley after eight seasons and went to another Italian club Sir Safety Perugia.[1]

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 - trentinovolley.it - 22-07-2015
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Awards
Preceded by
Poland Marcin Możdżonek		 Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB World League
2013
ex aequo Russia Dmitriy Muserskiy 		Succeeded by
United States David Lee
Brazil Lucas Saatkamp
Preceded by
United States Russell Holmes		 Best Blocker of
FIVB Club World Championship
2012

2013
ex aequo Italy Matteo Burgsthaler

 Succeeded by
Cuba Robertlandy Simón
Brazil José Santos Júnior
Preceded by
Cuba Robertlandy Simón		 Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
2013
ex aequo United States Maxwell Holt 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Middle Blocker of
Olympic Games
2016
ex aequo Russia Artem Volvich 		Succeeded by
TBD
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