Simone Giannelli

Simone Giannelli
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1996-08-09) 9 August 1996 Bolzano, Italy
Height	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
Weight	89 kg (196 lb)
Spike	352 cm (139 in)
Block	330 cm (130 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Current club	Diatec Trentino
Number	9
Career
Years Teams 2012– Diatec Trentino
National team
2015– Italy
Honours Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Cup 2015 Japan World Grand Champions Cup 2017 Japan European Championship 2015 Bulgaria/Italy
Last updated: 17 September 2017

Simone Giannelli (born 9 August 1996) is an Italian volleyball player, a member of the Italy men's national volleyball team and Italian club Trentino Volley, silver medalist of the 2015 World Cup and bronze medalist of the 2015 European Championship, Italian Champion (2013, 2015).

Career

He had proved himself an up-and-coming star within volleyball, by achieving the Finals MVP award at the 2014-2015 Italian Volleyball League won by his team against Modena Volley. He then followed the trend up by taking the starting 7 in the national team, despite competition by players like Dragan Travica, Michele Baranowicz and Marco Falaschi.

In his first year in the national team he won a silver medal at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship, where he was also awarded the prize for best setter, the youngest in the history of the tournament.

Sporting achievements

References

External links

• FIVB profile
• LegaVolley player profile
• Trentino Volley player profile

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Awards
Preceded by Sergey Grankin	Best Setter of CEV European Championship 2015	Succeeded by Sergey Grankin
Preceded by Fabian Drzyzga	Best Setter of CEV Champions League 2015/2016	Succeeded by Luciano De Cecco
Preceded by Benjamin Toniutti	Best Setter of FIVB World League 2016	Succeeded by Benjamin Toniutti
Preceded by William Arjona	Best Setter of FIVB Club World Championship 2016	Succeeded by Aleksandr Butko
Preceded by Bruno Rezende	Best Setter of World Grand Champions Cup 2017	Succeeded by TBD