André Heller (volleyball)
Appearance
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Born | Novo Hamburgo, Brazil | 17 December 1975||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 339 cm (133 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 321 cm (126 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Middle blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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André Heller (born 17 December 1975) is a Brazilian former volleyball player.[1][2] A three-time Olympian (2000, 2004 and 2008),[3][4] he played as a middle-blocker. He won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
After the 2013–2014 season, he retired from professional volleyball at the age of 38.
Honours
[edit]- 1998 FIVB World League — 5th place
- 1998 World Championship — 4th place
- 1999 FIVB World League — 3rd place
- 2000 FIVB World League — 3rd place
- 2000 Olympic Games — 6th place
- 2001 FIVB World League — 1st place
- 2001 World Grand Champions Cup — 2nd place
- 2002 FIVB World League — 2nd place
- 2003 FIVB World League — 1st place
- 2003 FIVB World Cup — 1st place
- 2003 Pan American Games — 3rd place
- 2005 FIVB World League — 1st place
- 2005 America's Cup — 2nd place
- 2006 FIVB World League — 1st place
- 2006 World Championship — 1st place
- 2007 FIVB World League — 1st place
References
[edit]- ^ "FIVB Biography - Andre Heller". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ "FIVB World Cup Biography - Andre Heller". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ "Olympic Games - André Heller". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "André Heller". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
External links
[edit]- FIVB profile
- André Heller at the European Volleyball Confederation
- André Heller at Olympedia (archive)
- André Heller at Olympics.com
- André Heller at the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (in Portuguese)
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Brazilian men's volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players for Brazil
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
- Brazilian people of German descent
- Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Sul
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- People from Novo Hamburgo
- Middle blockers
- Brazilian expatriate volleyball players in Italy
- 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen
- Brazilian Olympic medalist stubs
- Brazilian volleyball biography stubs