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Full name | Nicole Therese Sanderson | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | Perth, Western Australia | 1 April 1976||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Nicole Therese Sanderson (born 1 April 1976 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian beach volleyball player.[1]
Sanderson started her career in indoor volleyball where played for Pepperdine University, in the United States.[2] In 1998 she competed for the first time in FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour where she took part until the 2006 season.
Her best World Tour result was a second place in Osaka, Japan, alongside Natalie Cook in 2004.[3] That year they have been selected to represent Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens.[4] Cook had won the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (with Kerri Pottharst) and they won a bronze medal at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.[3] They finished the Olympics in fourth place[5] after losing the bronze medal match to Americans Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nicole Sanderson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Nicole Therese Sanderson – Bio Bits". Beach Volleyball Database. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Aussies Regroup for SWATCH-FIVB World Tour". FIVB. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Australia Beach Volleyball at the 2004 Athina Summer Games". Sports Reference LCC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Nicole Hannan". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Women's beach volleyball: Americans snare Olympic gold and bronze". People's Daily. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
External links
[edit]- Nicole Sanderson at the FIVB beach volleyball database
- Nicole Sanderson at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Nicole Sanderson at Olympedia