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Cuba men's national volleyball team

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Nickname(s)
  
Powerful

Home
  
Away

Best result
  
3rd (1976)

FIVB ranking
  
13 (as of August 2016)

Appearances
  
7 (First in 1972)

Location
  
Cuba

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Association
  
Federación Cubana De Voleibol

Confederation
  
North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation

The Cuba men's national volleyball team (Spanish: Selección masculina de voleibol de Cuba) is the national team of Cuba. Cuba in the 1976 Summer Olympics won the bronze medal. Other achievements of the team winning one World League, one World Grand Champions Cup and fifteen NORCECA Championships. Cuba have winner two silver and two bronze World Championship medals and have won the NORCECA Championship 15 times.

Contents

Olympic Games

  • 1972 – 10th place
  • 1976 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1980 – 7th place
  • 1992 – 4th place
  • 1996 – 6th place
  • 2000 – 7th place
  • 2016 – 11th place

    • World Championship

  • 1956 – 19th place
  • 1966 – 17th place
  • 1970 – 13th place
  • 1974 – 8th place
  • 1978 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1982 – 10th place
  • 1986 – 5th place
  • 1990 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1994 – 4th place
  • 1998 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2002 – 19th place
  • 2006 – 15th place
  • 2010 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2014 – 11th place

    • World Cup

  • 1969 – 9th place
  • 1977 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1981 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1989 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1991 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1995 – 6th place
  • 1999 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2011 – 5th place

    • World Grand Champions Cup

  • 1993 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1997 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2001 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2009 – 02 ! Silver medal

    • World League

  • 1991 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1992 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1993 – 4th place
  • 1994 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1995 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1996 – 4th place
  • 1997 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1998 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1999 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2000 – 8th place
  • 2001 – 5th place
  • 2002 – 13th place
  • 2003 – 13th place
  • 2004 – 7th place
  • 2005 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2006 – 7th place
  • 2007 – 7th place
  • 2008 – 10th place
  • 2009 – 4th place
  • 2010 – 4th place
  • 2011 – 8th place
  • 2012 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2013 – 13th place
  • 2014 – 21st place
  • 2015 – 18th place
  • 2016 – 22nd place

    • Pan American Games

  • 1959 – 7th place
  • 1967 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1971 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1975 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1979 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1983 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1987 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1991 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1995 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1999 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2003 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2007 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2011 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2015 – 5th place

    • NORCECA Volleyball Championship

  • 1969 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1971 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1973 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1975 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1977 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1979 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1981 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1983 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1985 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1987 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1989 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1991 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1993 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1995 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1997 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1999 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2001 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2003 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2005 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2007 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2009 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2011 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2013 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2015 – 02 ! Silver medal

    • Pan-American Cup

  • 2006 – 5th place
  • 2007 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2014 – 01 ! Gold medal

    • America's Cup

  • 1998 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1999 – 4th place
  • 2000 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2001 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 2005 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2007 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 2008 – 01 ! Gold medal

    • Central American and Caribbean Games

  • 1930 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1935 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1938 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1946 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1950 – 02 ! Silver medal
  • 1954 – 03 ! Bronze medal
  • 1962 – 4th place
  • 1966 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1970 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1974 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1978 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1982 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1986 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1990 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1993 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 1998 – 01 ! Gold medal
  • 2014 – 03 ! Bronze medal

    • Current squad

    The following is the Cuban roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. ‹See Tfd›

    Head coach: Nicolás Vives

    2016 Finland rape incident

    Eight members of the Cuban national men's volleyball team, including the team's captain, were held in Tampere, Finland on suspicion of aggravated gang rape of a 35-year-old Finnish woman, as of July 2016. Two of them were discarded of the claims later. The incident took place in the Hotel Ilves at Tampere where the Olympics-bound Cuban team were staying. The arrested players were scheduled to play in the Cuban team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

    On 16 August, the six team members still remaining in custody were charged with aggravated rape at Pirkanmaa District Court and the proceedings started on 29 August. On 20 September, four of the men, Osmany Santiago Uriarte Mestre, Rolando Cepeda Abreu, Ricardo Norberto Calvo Manzano and Abraham Alfonso Gavilán were given five-year jail sentences while Luis Tomás Sosa Sierra is facing a prison term of three and a half years.

    According to the NYT, the Cuban Volleyball Association stated early on that the athletes’ behavior was counter to the “discipline the sense of honor and respect that govern our sport and society.”

    Kit providers

    The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Cuba national volleyball team.

    Sponsorship

    Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Honda.

    References

    Cuba men's national volleyball team Wikipedia
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