Vigor Bovolenta
Appearance
Vigor Bovolenta | |||||
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Nationality | Italian | ||||
Born | Rovigo, Italy | 30 May 1974||||
Died | 24 March 2012 Macerata, Italy | (aged 37)||||
Height | 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) | ||||
Spike | 358 cm (141 in) | ||||
Block | 345 cm (136 in) | ||||
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Position | Middle blocker | ||||
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Last updated: 2 January 2018 |
Vigor Bovolenta (30 May 1974 – 24 March 2012) was a volleyball player from Italy. Bovolenta was part of the men's national team that won the gold medal at the 1995 European Championship in Greece and the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[1]
Bovolenta died at the age of 37 after suffering a heart attack during an Italian League fourth level game between his team, Forlì, and the reserve team of Macerata.[2] He had severe coronary artery disease similar to Sergey Grinkov.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Olympic results
- ^ Marisa Poli (24 March 2012). "Malore in campo. Addio a Bovolenta" (in Italian). Gazzetta.it. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vigor Bovolenta.
- Vigor Bovolenta at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Vigor Bovolenta at WorldofVolley
- Vigor Bovolenta at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (in Italian)
- Vigor Bovolenta at Olympics.com
- Vigor Bovolenta at Olympedia
- Vigor Bovolenta at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- RAI Profile Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
Categories:
- 1974 births
- 2012 deaths
- Italian men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for Italy
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- People from Rovigo
- Middle blockers
- Sportspeople from the Province of Rovigo
- Sports competitors who died in competition
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen
- Italian volleyball biography stubs
- Italian Olympic medalist stubs