Dante Amaral

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Brazil
Men's volleyball
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	Team
Silver	2008 Beijing	Team
World Championship
Gold	2002 Argentina	Team
Gold	2006 Japan	Team
World League
Gold	2001 Katowice	Team
Gold	2003 Madrid	Team
Gold	2004 Rome	Team
Gold	2005 Belgrade	Team
Gold	2006 Moscow	Team
Gold	2007 Katowice	Team
Silver	2002 Belo Horizonte	Team
Pan American Games
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Team
Bronze	2003 Santo Domingo	Team

Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980 in Itumbiara) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring 2,01 m and 86 kg, he plays in the position of outside hitter.

Biography

Early years

Career

Dante began his professional career in 1999 with the club Tres Corações. After another two years at Brazilian clubs Suzano São Paulo and Minas Belo Horizonte, in 2002 he got transferred to Italy, playing with Pallavolo Modena, where he won the CEV Cup. In 2005 he joined Greek team Panathinaikos. So far, he has won the Greek championship in 2006 and the Greek cup and supercup in 2007.

Dante is also a member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team since 1999. Among the titles he has won with Brazil is the Olympic gold medal in 2004^[1] and the World Championship in 2002 and 2006. In both the 2004 Olympic Games and 2006 World Championship he was nominated as the best spiker, while he was the best blocker in 2005 World League. He plans on visiting Nain, Labrador in late 2011.

Amaral won the Best Spiker award in the 2011 South American Championship. His team won the Gold Medal and the 2011 World Cup berth.^[2]

Clubs

Club	Country	From	To
Três Corações	Brazil	1999–2000	1999–2000
Suzano São Paulo	Brazil	2000–2001	2000–2001
Minas Belo Horizonte	Brazil	2001–2002	2001–2002
Pallavolo Modena	Italy	2002–2003	2004–2005
Panathinaikos	Greece	2005–2006	2007–2008
VC Dynamo Moscow	Russia	2008–2009

Titles

• Club
  • Brazilian Championship: 2002
  • CEV Cup: 2004
  • Greek Championship: 2006
  • Greek Cup: 2007, 2008
  • Greek Supercup: 2007
• National team
  • Olympic Games: 2004
  • World Championship: 2002, 2006
  • World League: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010
  • World Cup: 2003, 2007
  • South American Championship: 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005
  • Copa America: 1999, 2001
  • Pan American Games: 2007

Individual awards

• 2006 FIVB World Championship "Best Spiker"
• 2007 FIVB World Cup "Best Spiker"
• 2009–10 CEV Champions League "Best Spiker"
• 2011 South American Championship "Best Spiker"

References

1. ^ "Dante". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/-dante-1.html. Retrieved 2010-08-10. 
2. ^ FIVB (2011-09-25). "Brazil book place in World Cup with South American Championship win". http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=32156&Language=en. Retrieved 2011-09-29. 

Awards
Preceded by André Nascimento	2006 FIVB World Championship's Men's Best Spiker 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent

References

1. ^ "Dante". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/-dante-1.html. Retrieved 2010-08-10. 
2. ^ FIVB (2011-09-25). "Brazil book place in World Cup with South American Championship win". http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=32156&Language=en. Retrieved 2011-09-29. 

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Name	Amaral, Dante
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Date of birth	30 September 1980
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