Tania Ortiz

Tania Ortiz
Tania Ortiz
Personal information
Full name	Tania Ortiz Calvo
Nationality	Cuban
Born	30 October 1965 (age 58); Vertientes, Camagüey Province, Cuba
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Number	1
National team
1985–1994	Cuba
Honours
Women’s volleyball
Representing Cuba
Olympic Games
World Championship
FIVB World Cup
FIVB World Grand Prix
World Grand Champions Cup
Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games

Tania Ortiz Calvo (born 30 October 1965), also known as Tania Ortiz, is a former volleyball player who played for the Cuban women's national volleyball team and won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2] She was a setter.^[3]

World Championships[edit]

Ortiz also helped the Cuban national team win the silver medal at the 1986 FIVB World Championship in Czechoslovakia and the gold medal at the 1994 FIVB World Championship in Brazil, where they did not lose a set in the entire tournament.^[1]^[3]

Ortiz won a silver medal at the 1985 FIVB World Cup, and gold medals at the 1989 and 1991 FIVB World Cup.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Tania Ortiz". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 21 January 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^ "Tania Ortiz Calvo". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Coll Untoria, Jorge Luis (27 February 2021). "Tania Ortiz: A las Morenas las valora más la gente (+Video)". Cubadebate.cu (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2023.