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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Guimarães Santos and the second or paternal family name is do Amaral.

Dante Amaral
Personal information
Full nameDante Guimarães Santos do Amaral
Nationality Brazilian
Born30 September 1980 (1980-09-30) (age 43)
Itumbiara, GO, Brazil
Height201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Spike345 cm (136 in)
Block327 cm (129 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside spiker
Current clubRetired
Career
YearsTeams
1999–2000 Três Corações
2000–2001 Suzano São Paulo
2001–2002 Minas Tênis Clube
2002–2005 Pallavolo Modena
2005–2008 Panathinaikos V.C.
2008–2011 VC Dynamo Moscow
2011–2012 RJX
2012–2014 Panasonic Panthers
2014–2015 Funvic Taubaté
2015–2016 EC São José
2016–2017 PAOK Thessaloniki
2017–2018 Funvic Taubaté
National team
1999–2013  Brazil
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing   Brazil
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 2 0
World Championship 3 0 0
World Cup 2 0 1
World Grand Champions Cup 0 1 0
World League 7 3 0
Pan American Games 1 0 1
Total 14 6 2
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2002 Argentina Team
Gold medal – first place 2006 Japan Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Italy Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2003 Japan Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Japan Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Japan Team
World Grand Champions Cup
Silver medal – second place 2001 Japan Team
World League
Gold medal – first place 2001 Katowice Team
Gold medal – first place 2003 Madrid Team
Gold medal – first place 2004 Rome Team
Gold medal – first place 2005 Belgrade Team
Gold medal – first place 2006 Moscow Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Katowice Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Córdoba Team
Silver medal – second place 2002 Belo Horizonte Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Gdańsk Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Mar del Plata Team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Santo Domingo Team
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2011 Cuiabá Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Cabo Frio Team

Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980) is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring 2.01 metres (6 ft 7 in) he played in the position of outside hitter. [1] He was born in Itumbiara. [2]

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. He won the Greek championship in 2006 and the Greek cup and supercup in 2007.

Dante was 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 [3] 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.

Amaral won the Best Spiker award in the 2011 South American Championship. His team won the gold medal and the 2011 World Cup berth. [4]

Sporting achievements

Clubs

CEV Champions League

CEV Challenge Cup

National team

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Team Roster – Brazil". fivb.org. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ^ "AMARAL, Dante". Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dante (full name: Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral)". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  4. ^ FIVB (25 September 2011). "Brazil book place in World Cup with South American Championship win". Retrieved 29 September 2011.

External links


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