Taliqua Clancy

Taliqua Clancy (born 25 June 1992) is an Australian volleyball and beach volleyball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball, partnered with Louise Bawden.[1][2] She is the first indigenous Australian volleyball player to represent Australia at the Olympics.[1] She has the aboriginal flag tattooed on her left wrist and painted the flag on her fingernails for the Olympic matches.[3]

Taliqua Clancy
Clancy in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992
Kingaroy, Queensland
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Years Teammate
2017–present Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Previous teammates
Years Teammate
2013–2017
2012–2013		 Louise Bawden
Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Honours
Women's beach volleyball
Representing  Australia
World Championships
2019 HamburgBeach
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastBeach
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
2020Chetumal Open
2019Warsaw Open
2018Espinho Open
2018Lucerne Open
2018Sydney Open
2018Qinzhou Open
2019Jinjiang Open
2019Xiamen Open
2018World Tour Finals
2018Xiamen Open
2015Porec Major
Asian Beach Volleyball Championships
2019Maoming
2018Satun
2017Songkhla
2015Hong Kong
2014Jinjiang

Clancy plays as a left-side blocker.[4]

Professional career

Rio de Janeiro – 2016 Olympics

She participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with partner Louise Bawden, reaching the Quarter-finals.[5]

Gold Coast – 2018 Commonwealth Games

Taliqua participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast with partner Mariafe Artacho del Solar. The Australian pairing won their 3 preliminary pool matches without losing a set, with wins over Greece's Manolina Konstantinou and Mariota Angelopoulou (21–14, 21–9), Grenada's Renisha Stafford and Thornia Williams (21–2, 21–11), and Scotland's Lynne Beattie and Melissa Coutts (21–9, 21–9). Finishing top of their pool they advanced to the quarter-finals, where they easily dispatched of Rwanda's Charlotte Nzayisenga and Denyse Mutatsimpundu (21–9, 21–8) to advance to the semi-finals. After winning the opening set of their semi-final against Vanuatu's pairing of Linline Matauatu and Miller Pata, the Aussie duo lost their first set of the tournament to send the match to the decider, which they won convincingly to advance to the gold medal match (21–19, 16–21, 15–9). In the match of the tournament, the Australian team came up agonisingly short against their more experience and higher ranked Canadian opponents, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan (19–21, 20–22). Although their winning run came to an end, they secured a silver medal at their first Commonwealth Games together.[6]

References
  1. "Taliqua Clancy". Australian Olympic Committee website. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. "Taliqua Clancy". FIVB website. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. "Rio Olympics: Taliqua Clancy's journey from Kingaroy to Copacabana". The Australian. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. "Players Details: Taliqua Clancy". Beach Volleyball Major Series. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  5. Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
  6. Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament
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