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Fernanda Garay

Brazilian volleyball player (born 1986)

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Fernanda Garay Rodrigues (born May 10, 1986) is a Brazilian retired professional volleyball player who won the 2012 Summer Olympics gold medal and the silver medal at 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics with the Brazilian national team. She is 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) tall. She played with Praia Clube.

01Career

Garay is a military sergeant. She played at the 2011 Military World Games volleyball tournament, winning the gold medal and the Most Valuable Player and Best Spiker individual awards.

Playing with Sollys Nestlé Osasco, Garay won the gold medal in the 2012 FIVB Club World Championship held in Doha, Qatar.

Garay was awarded Best Spiker of the 2012/13 season of the Brazilian Superliga playing with Sollys/Nestlé. She was announced to play for Fenerbahçe for the 2013/14 club season.

Garay won one of the Best Outside Hitters awards during the 2013 South American Championship. Her National Team won the Continental Championship qualifying to the 2013 World Grand Champions Cup and the 2014 World Championship.

After signing with the Russian club, Dinamo Krasnodar for 2014/2015, Garay won the Russian Cup title and the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship silver medal when her team lost to the Turkish Eczacibasi VitrA in the championship match. She was recognized with the Best Outside Spiker individual award. She previously announced the extension of her contract with Krasnodar for the 2015/2016 season, but the club experienced financial problems that led her sign with Dinamo Moscow for that season. With this team, she won the bronze medal of the Russian Cup in December 2015 and the Russian league championship in 2016 with a perfect season.

Garay won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games when her national team was defeated in the championship match 0-3 by the United States.

After winning silver at 2020 Summer Olympics, Garay announced her retirement from international competitions along with libero Camila Brait.

Garay at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Garay at the 2012 Summer Olympics

02Clubs

03Awards

Clubs

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