Vigor Bovolenta
Appearance
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Personal information | |||||
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 European Championship in 1995 and the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1]
He died at the age of 37 only a few hours after feeling faint (allegedly 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
References
- ^ Olympic results
- ^ Marisa Poli (24 March 2012). "Malore in campo. Addio a Bovolenta" (in Italian). Gazzetta.it. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
External links
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Categories:
- 1974 births
- 2012 deaths
- Italian men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of 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
- Italian volleyball biography stubs
- Italian Olympic medalist stubs