Osmany Juantorena

Osmany Juantorena
Personal information
Full name Osmany Juantorena Portuondo
Nationality Cuban
Italian
Born (1985-08-12) 12 August 1985
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Height 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Spike 370 cm (150 in)
Block 340 cm (130 in)
Volleyball information
Position Outside hitter
Current club Cucine Lube Civitanova
Number 5
Career
YearsTeams
1997–2004
2004–2006
2009–2010
2010
2010–2013
2013–2015
2015–		Orientales de Santiago
Ural Ufa
Itas Diatec Trentino
Al Arabi Ad-Dauha
Itas Diatec Trentino
Halkbank Ankara
Cucine Lube Civitanova
National team
2003–2006
2015–		Cuba
Italy
Honours
Representing  Cuba
World League
2005 Belgrade
Pan American Games
2003 San Domingo Team
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Cup
2015 Japan
European Championship
2015 Bulgaria/Italy

Osmany Juantorena Portuondo (born 12 August 1985) is a Cuban volleyball player with Italian citizenship,[1] a member of Cuba men's national volleyball team in 2003–2006 and current member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova, bronze medalist of the 2005 World League. He is a multiple winner of the CEV Champions League and FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship with the Italian club Trentino Volley.

Personal life

Juantorena was born in Santiago de Cuba. He is a nephew of Alberto Juantorena, a Cuban former track runner and politician. Osmany Juantorena and his wife Glenda became first time parents on May 3, 2013 with the arrival of their first baby daughter named Victoria.[2]

Career

Clubs

He started his junior career as 12 years old in the Orientales de Santiago. After several years, he moved to his first professional club in the Russian league – Ural Ufa, and in the following season he went to the Itas Diatec Trentino. During his time playing in Italy, he won the gold medal at the CEV Champions League three times with his club (2009/2010, 2010/2011) and the bronze medal in 2012.[3] He won four gold medals in the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).[4] With the club from Trentino, he won two silver (2009/2010, 2011/2012) and one gold medal of the Italian Championship (2010/2011) and two Italian Cups (2010, 2012). In May 2010 he played for a short loan in Qatar. He returned to Itas Diatec Trentino in September 2010. In 2012/2013 won Italian Cup and title of Italian Champion.

After moving to Halkbank Ankara in 2013, he achieved the Turkish SuperCup 2013 and the title of Turkish champion. In 2014 Halkbank Ankara, including Juantorena, gained again Turkish SuperCup. In April 2015 he announced that he would continue his career in Cucine Lube Civitanova.[5]

National Team

Juantorena first stormed the international stage back in 2003 up to 2006 with Cuba.[6] Juantorena join italy national team 2015 year, but it is with Italy where he is reaping the most success, claiming a European championship bronze and FIVB World Cup silver medalist in 2015. Juantorena has had a hugely positive impact on Italy’s attacking prowess in Rio 2016, Juantorena finally played in an Olympic game as a member of the powerful Italian team and winner silver medalist.[7]

Sporting achievements

Clubs

CEV Champions League

FIVB Club World Championship

National championship

National team

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Volley: Juantorena a Trento fino al 2015. Ora è italiano – sport.repubblica.it
  2. ↑ Juantorena Is Now A Daddy! – volleywood.net – 04-05-2013
  3. ↑ Final Four 2012: Trentino z brązowym medalem – belsport.pl – 18-03-2014
  4. ↑ Club World Championships review – Trentino unstoppable – fivb.org – 28-12-2012
  5. ↑ TRANSFER BOMB IN ITALY: Juantorena agrees to join Lube! – worldofvolley.com – 21-04-2015
  6. ↑ Star of Rio 2016
  7. ↑ Repubblica Osmany Juantorena
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Awards
Preceded by
Brazil Dante Amaral		 Best Receiver of
FIVB World League
2005 		Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
-		 Best Server of
FIVB Club World Championship
2009 		Succeeded by
Argentina Luciano De Cecco
Preceded by
Bulgaria Matey Kaziyski		 Best Spiker of
FIVB Club World Championship
2010
2011 		Succeeded by
Czech Republic Jan Štokr
Preceded by
Bulgaria Matey Kaziyski		 Most Valuable Player of
FIVB Club World Championship
2010
2011
2012 		Succeeded by
Brazil Wallace de Souza
Preceded by
Bulgaria Matey Kaziyski		 Most Valuable Player of
CEV Champions League
2009/2010
2010/2011 		Succeeded by
Poland Mariusz Wlazły
Preceded by
–		 Best Outside Hitter of
FIVB World Cup
2015
ex aequo Japan Yūki Ishikawa 		Succeeded by
TBD
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