Yekaterina Gamova

Russian Olympic volleyball player

Yekaterina Gamova is described in the public record as Russian Olympic volleyball player. Born in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, in 1980.

Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гамова; born 17 October 1980) is a Russian retired volleyball player. She was a member of the Russian national team that won the gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championships, and the silver medal in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Due to her stature and dominance at the net, she has been hailed as the "Queen of Volleyball". She is 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) tall with EU size 49 feet, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world. She is also the second highest paid female player in professional volleyball history. Her role was outside hitter/opposite. == Career == Playing with Dynamo Moscow, Gamova won silver medal at the 2008–09 CEV Indesit Champions League, and was awarded "Best scorer". For the 2009/2010 season, she joined the Turkish team Fenerbahçe Acıbadem, and won the Turkish League Championship.

Yekaterina Gamova is recorded among the figures by whom volleyball is remembered, and the surviving account of that career is the basis on which the reputation rests.

Volleyball is a rally sport in which no player may touch the ball twice in succession, so every point is necessarily a team construction.

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