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Paolo Nicolai (born 8 June 1988) is an Italian beach volleyball player.[1]

Paolo Nicolai
Nicolai at EC 2022 in Munich
Honours
Men's beach volleyball
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Beach

Biography


Nicolai was born in Ortona, province of Chieti. In 2007 and 2008, he won the FIVB Youth Beach Volleyball World Championships (with Francesco Giontella).[2]

From 2009 he played with different partners (Matteo Varnier and Matteo Martino), becoming an Italian champion once, until in 2011 the Italian federation had him partnered with Daniele Lupo. Lupo and Nicolai qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games, where they were eliminated by the Dutch team Nummerdor-Schuil in the quarter-finals. Nicolai was elected FIVB Most Improved Player 2012.

Lupo and Nicolai won the Beach Volleyball European World Championships twice, once in 2014 and again in 2016. A series of podiums in the World Tour also granted them the qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where they reached the final, winning the silver medal.[3] They reached the final, despite having to qualify as "lucky losers" from the pool stage.[2]


References


  1. "Volleyball: Young Italian Team Qualifies for A1 Grand Slam". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
  2. "News - European Champs battle from lucky losers to play World Champions for gold". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  3. "Rio 2016 final - Post-Match - Nicolai/Lupo-Alison/Bruno Schmidt". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.


Awards
Preceded by Men's FIVB World Tour "Best Attacker"
2014		 Succeeded by
Preceded by
 Mariusz Prudel (POL)
 Men's FIVB World Tour "Most Improved"
2012		 Succeeded by
 Álvaro Morais Filho (BRA)
Preceded by Men's FIVB World Tour "Best Blocker"
2016		 Succeeded by

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Paolo Nicolai (né le 6 août 1988 à Ortona) est un joueur de beach-volley italien. Il a notamment été médaillé d'or en 2014, en 2016 et en 2017 aux Championnats d'Europe de beach-volley.

[it] Paolo Nicolai

Paolo Nicolai (Ortona, 6 agosto 1988) è un giocatore di beach volley italiano.


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