Leila Barros

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Leila Barros

Personal information

Full name

Leila Gomes de Barros

Born

September 30, 1971 (age 42)
Brasília, DF, Brazil

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Medal record

Women’s Volleyball
Competitor for Brazil
Olympics Games
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Team
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team
FIVB World Grand Prix
Gold	2004 Reggio Calabria	Team
Silver	1999 Yu Xi	Team

Leila Gomes de Barros (born September 30, 1971 in Brasília, DF)^[1] is a Brazilian female volleyball player. She often played as opposite hitter and attacker. She was a member of the Brazilian squad who had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade), winning the 1996 and 1998 editions of the volleyball Grand Prix and being rated the most valuable player (MVP) in each win.

Barros's sporting talents have catapulted her into stardom and can be measured by the number of titles the player has won.

Career

Barros started competing in volleyball at the age of fifteen. She switched to beach volleyball in July 2001, but returned to the indoor courts in 2003 in order to help the Brazil women's national volleyball team to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

In the Volleyball Women's World Cups, Barros finished as runners-up in 1995 and was third placed in 1999. She also got silver medals in the 1994 World Championships. In the Olympics, her Brazilian team was 3rd in 1996 and 2000. She has also posed in several magazines and was one of the favorite players when she and the Brazilian volleyball team came to the Philippines. She is already retired.

References

↑ "Leila Barros profile". Volleyball Magazine. Retrieved September 25, 2013.

Awards
Preceded by Maurren Maggi	Brazilian Sportswomen of the Year 2000	Succeeded by Daniele Hypólito
Preceded by Vassiliki Arvaniti (GRE)	Women's FIVB World Tour "Most Improved" 2006	Succeeded by Laura Ludwig (GER) Tamsin Barnett (AUS)

v t e Prêmio Brasil Olímpico

Men	1999 Gustavo Kuerten 2000 Gustavo Kuerten 2001 Robert Scheidt 2002 Nalbert 2003 Fernando Meligeni 2004 Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima 2005 João Derly 2006 Giba 2007 Thiago Pereira 2008 César Cielo 2009 César Cielo 2010 Murilo Endres 2011 César Cielo 2012 Arthur Zanetti 2013 Jorge Zarif

Women	1999 Maurren Maggi 2000 Leila Barros 2001 Daniele Hypólito 2002 Daniele Hypólito 2003 Daiane dos Santos 2004 Daiane dos Santos 2005 Natália Falavigna 2006 Laís Souza 2007 Jade Barbosa 2008 Maurren Maggi 2009 Sarah Menezes 2010 Fabiana Murer 2011 Fabiana Murer 2012 Sheilla Castro 2013 Poliana Okimoto

Persondata
Name	Barros, Leila
Alternative names
Short description	Volleyball player
Date of birth	September 30, 1971
Place of birth	Brasília, Federal District (Brazil), Brazil
Date of death
Place of death

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