Tandara Caixeta

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Alves and the second or paternal family name is Caixeta.
Tandara Caixeta
Caixeta at the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix
Personal information
Full nameTandara Alves Caixeta
Born (1988-10-30) 30 October 1988 (age 36)
Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Spike305 cm (120 in)
Block297 cm (117 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite spiker / Outside Spiker
Current clubOsasco
Number11
National team
2011–2022Brazil Brazil
Honours
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Italy Team
World Grand Champions Cup
Gold medal – first place 2013 Japan Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Japan Team
World Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nanjing Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Macau Team
FIVB Nations League
Silver medal – second place 2021 Rimini Team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Montreux Volley Masters
Gold medal – first place 2017 Switzerland Team
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2011 Callao
Gold medal – first place 2017 Cali

Tandara Alves Caixeta (born 30 October 1988) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. She plays for the Brazil women's national volleyball team and for Sesc-Rio in the Brazilian Superliga. She competed for Brazil in the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal.[1] She is 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall. She is the daughter of Evaldo Caixeta, a former amateur player with Banco do Brasil Athletic Association. At the age of nine, after trying many different sports, she saw a TV advert and decided to go to a volleyball trial.

In 2011, she was selected for the Brazil team for the first time and won gold in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara before becoming an Olympic champion in London in 2012. She has twice been the top scorer in the Brazilian Women's Superliga. She is known for breaking records in the Brazilian Superliga. In the 2013/2014 season, she broke the record for most points in a match; she scored 37 points. In the 2017/2018 season, she broke her own record, scoring 39 points, as well as scoring 626 points in the season, which this also the highest mark in the country. Again in the 2019/2020 season, she broke her record, scoring an unbelievable 40 points in 4 sets, the highest mark in the history of volleyball on the Brazilian courts.

Caixeta won the 2017 South American Championship Most Valuable Player award.[2] She later won the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Opposite Spiker award.[3]

During the 2020 Summer Olympics, she was provisionally suspended for doping ahead of Brazil's semi-final against South Korea.[4] Brazil ultimately won the silver medal at the tournament, and though suspended, Caixeta was still listed as a medalist, pending the outcome of the doping investigation.[5] In 2022, she was handed down a 4-year ban from the sport.[6]

  1. ^ "Women's Volleyball". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Brasil suma su 20º título y clasifica al mundial de Japón en el Sudamericano EN EL SUDAMERICANO DE CALI". CSV (in Spanish). 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ "China clinch second FIVB World Grand Champions Cup title". Nagoya, Japan: FIVB. 10 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  4. ^ Olimpíadas: Tandara é suspensa por 'potencial violação' em exame antidoping e está fora dos Jogos
  5. ^ "Volleyball (women): Medallists" (PDF). Olympics.com. 8 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  6. ^ "BRA W: Tandara sentenced to 4-year suspension for doping – WorldOfVolley". worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 1 August 2024.