Giulia Momoli

From left, Daniela Gioria and Giulia Momoli

Medal record
Women's Beach Volleyball
Competitor for  Italy
World Championships 17th ('09) 33rd ('11)
FIVB World Tour 93rd ('06) 49th ('07) 26th ('08) 20th ('09) 27th ('10) 20th ('11)
European Championships 5th ('09)
Italian Championships 3rd ('06) 1st ('07) 3rd ('08) 2nd ('09) 3rd ('10)

Giulia Momoli (Asolo, August 30, 1981) is an Italian beach volleyball player. Together with Daniela Gioria she is Italian Champion in 2007, and they are currently the second best Italian couple in the FIVB World Ranking with the 20th position. Since 2006 she is constantly involved in the World Tour and with 72 career presences, 229 international matches and 18573 points played she is Italy's most active beachvolleyball player. Together with Daniela Gioria she tries to qualify for London 2012 Olympics.

School

She attended the 1st year of High School at “Cavanis” in Possagno, and from the 2nd year (1996–97) moved to the School of Science and Technology "G. B. Quadri" in Vicenza, because she was called to play with Mosele Vicenza in the 4th Italian League. She graduated in the same high school in July 2000. She enrolled during the same year at the University of Padua in Science of Education, where she graduated in June 2006, while she was a player in 1st Italian League with Zoppas Conegliano (now Spes Volley Conegliano).

Career

Volleyball

After winning the 4th League championship in 1996-'97, 3rd League championship in 1997-'98, she played in the 2nd League in 1998-'99 with Vicenza, moving the following year to Barbarano in the same League. In 2000-'01 she played in the 2nd League with Sartori Padova winning the promotion to 1st League, where she also played the following year. She then moved to the 2nd League in the 2005-'06 season with Zoppas Conegliano where she won the Italian Cup and the promotion in the 1st League. She moved to Rome to take part to the Italian National Beach Volleyball Team in 2006 and resumed during the winter her indoor career in the 2nd League 2008-'09 with Monterotondo Volley and in 2009-'10 with Promomedia Ostia VC.

Beach volleyball

• In summer 2006 she decided to devote herself solely to beach volleyball together with Daniela Gioria, winning the bronze medal in the Italian Championship and taking part to five competitions of the World Tour, with Daniela Gioria, Diletta Lunardi and Lucilla Perrotta, with whom she earns the first important result in her international career, the 17th place in Phuket, Thailand in November 2006.

• In 2007 after the two opening stages of World Tour where she partners respectively with Daniela Gattelli and Lucilla Perrotta, she decides to run for the qualification of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 teamed with Daniela Gioria. They take part to the Italian Championship of beach volleyball. Collect eight presences at the World Tour, where they reach the 4th place in a Satellite in Eboli.

They win the Italian Championship of Beach Volleyball on the beach of Ostia the same year, hitting three 17th places in the World Tour and ending up 43rd in the World Ranking.

• In 2008 they collect 17 presences at the World Tour and 2138 points: a 17th placement, two 13th, four 9th and a 7th place in Sanya, China. The miss for only two positions the Olympic qualification, earning the 3rd place in the Italian Championship. They represent the 26th team in the world (the only Italian team in the first 40 positions).

At the end of the year they are removed from the National Italian Team.

• Since 2009, always with Gioria, they are a freelance professional team representing Italy in international tournaments. They win the 2nd position in the Italian Championship, playing five stages of the European Championship and reaching the 5th place in the final of Sochi. They play 11 stages of the World Tour (four times 9th, once 13th and three times 17th) also picking up the best performance ever in the history of Italian Beach Volleyball at a Grand Slam, the 5th place in Marseille in July 2009. At the end of the season they are ranked 20th in the FIVB world ranking with 2200 points, representing since then the Italian couple with the highest score in the world ranking, among men and women.

• In 2010, they play and win the first two stages of the Italian Championship in Pescara and Maratea, finishing 4th at the third stage of Milan. They lead the Italian championship with 640 points.
  • In June, they take part and win a stage at the Swiss Championship in Locarno.
  • They have so far ten presences at the World Tour collecting three 25th places (Shanghai Open, Grand Slam of Rome and The Hagues by forfait) three 17th places (Grand Slam of Stavanger, Grand Slam of Gstaad and Kristiansand), three 9th places (Seoul Open, Grand Slam of Moscow and Pukhet). Due to a compound fracture to the little finger of right hand reported by Daniela Gioria during a pool play held July 8 at the Grand Slam of Gstaad (where after two forfeit they however reach the 17th place), the couple has been forced to a stop and could not play the stage of Marseille Open and Grand Slam of Klagenfurt.
  • Together with Patricia Labee, Giulia took part at the stage of Cesenatico, Italian Championship, going on the 3rd step of the podium. Still without her storical partner Daniela Gioria she plays the in the Final of Italian Beach volleyball Championship, playing the first time ever with Lucia Bacchi, with whom after only 3 days of training she wins the 3rd place.
  • Moreover she plays the Kristiansand stage with the new Italian Champion Barbara Campanari.
  • Again, together with Patricia Labee she plays and wins an amateur tournament in Bibione.
  • At the end of August she teams again with her partner Daniela Gioria hitting the 13th place in Sanya - Cina - and with a 9th place in Pukhet - Thailand. With 9 tournaments over 15 played, they represent the 27th couple in the World Ranking with 1500 points.

• During 2011 she takes part to the Olympic Qualification Process trough the World Tour Ranking with Daniela Gioria.
  • In Brasilia at the season opening they qualify to the Main Draw hitting the 25th place.
  • In Sanya they do not qualify for the Main Draw having lost the single elimination bracket, placing therefore 33rd.
  • In Shanghai they take advantage of a Wild Card with the 25th seeding position, and after winning two matches they hit the 17th place.
  • In Myslowice they qualify for they Main Draw hitting again the 17th place.
  • In Bibione they win the amateur tournament from which they are sponsored.
  • During the first Grand Slam of the season in Beijing in the same venue where the Giochi della XXIX Olimpiade were held, starting from the Qualification Tournament [Q8,25] with 5 wins and 2 losses (the last one against the World Champions, Kessy-Ross) they hit their best seasonal result, that is the 9th place which brings them among the World's 20 best couples.
  • During the World Championships held in Rome in the Foro Italico they miss the single elimination phase for just 3 points over 120, therefore hitting the 33rd place.
  • During the second Grand Slam of the season played in Stavanger, Norway, they win for the first time in their career the pool in a Grand Slam advancing directly to the 8th of finals, but losing against a team from Greece they end at the 9th place. With 5 victories in a row, and with a 3,333 set ratio, they sign their best seasonal result [Q7, 25] to 9th place.

Together with Daniela Gioria she currently occupies the 20th place with 1020 points in the World Rankings FIVB WT, representing the second best Italian couple at the national^[1] and international.^[2] level.

Playing partners

• Daniela Gioria
• Daniela Gattelli
• Diletta Lunardi
• Lucilla Perrotta
• Patricia Labee
• Barbara Campanari
• Lucia Bacchi

External links

• Giulia Momoli Official Website
• Facebook Team's Fan Page
• Facebook Athlete's Fan Page

References

• Giulia Momoli - Profile at the Beach Volleyball Database

1. ^ http://www.federvolley.it/index.php?page=243&area=30&m=2&sm=49 National Ranking - 2011
2. ^ http://bvbinfo.com/Ranking.asp?Assoc=3&Gender=W&Year=2011&Team=1 2011 World Tour Ranking

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Name	Momoli, Giulia
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