Yekaterina Gamova

Yekaterina Gamova is a retired Russian volleyball player, born on 17 October 1980, who played as an outside hitter or opposite. At 2.02 metres she is one of the tallest female athletes in the world, and her dominance at the net earned her the title Queen of Volleyball. She was part of the Russian national team that won gold at the 2006 and 2010 World Championships and silver at the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games, and she was named most valuable player of the 2010 World Championship. At club level she played for Uralochka-NTMK, Dynamo Moscow, Fenerbahçe in Turkey and Dinamo Kazan, with whom she won the 2013-14 CEV Champions League and the 2014 Club World Championship. She announced her retirement in May 2016 because of an injury.