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Tandara Caixeta
Tandara, Grand Prix Łódź, Poland.jpg
Caixeta at the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix
Personal information
Full name Tandara Alves Caixeta
Nationality Brazilian
Born (1988-10-30) 30 October 1988 (age 36)
Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Spike 305 cm (120 in)
Block 297 cm (117 in)
Volleyball information
Position Opposite spiker / Outside Spiker
Current club Osasco
Number 11
National team
2011–2022 Brazil Brazil
Honours
Representing  Brazil
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Olympic Games
Gold 2012 London Team
Silver 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Bronze 2014 Italy Team
World Grand Champions Cup
Gold 2013 Japan Team
Silver 2017 Japan Team
World Grand Prix
Gold 2014 Tokyo Team
Gold 2017 Nanjing Team
Silver 2011 Macau Team
FIVB Nations League
Silver 2021 Rimini Team
Pan American Games
Gold 2011 Guadalajara Team
Montreux Volley Masters
Gold 2017 Switzerland Team
South American Championship
Gold 2011 Callao
Gold 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. 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. She later won the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Opposite Spiker award.

During the 2020 Summer Olympics, she was provisionally suspended for doping ahead of Brazil's semi-final against South Korea. 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.

Clubs

  • Brazil A.D. Brusque (2005–2007)
  • Brazil Grêmio de Vôlei Osasco (2007–2008)
  • Brazil E.C. Pinheiros (2008–2009)
  • Brazil A.D. Brusque (2009–2010)
  • Brazil Vôlei Futuro (2010–2011)
  • Brazil Sollys Osasco (2011–2012)
  • Brazil SESI-SP (2012–2013)
  • Brazil Vôlei Amil Campinas (2013–2014)
  • Brazil Praia Clube (2014–2015)
  • Brazil Minas Tênis Clube (2015–2016)
  • Brazil Nestle Osasco (2016-2018)
  • China Guangdong Evergrande (2018–2019)
  • Brazil SESC Rio (2019-2020)
  • Brazil Osasco/Audax (2020-2022)

Awards

Individuals

  • 2012–13 Brazilian Superliga – "Best scorer"
  • 2013–14 Brazilian Superliga – "Best scorer"
  • 2013–14 Brazilian Superliga – "Best server"
  • 2016–17 Brazilian Superliga – "Best scorer"
  • 2016–17 Brazilian Superliga – "Best server"
  • 2017 South American Championship – "Most valuable player"
  • 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – "Best opposite spiker"
  • 2017–18 Brazilian Superliga – "Most valuable player"
  • 2017–18 Brazilian Superliga – "Best scorer"
  • 2017–18 Brazilian Superliga – "Best spiker"
  • 2018 FIVB Nations League – "Best opposite spiker"
  • 2021 FIVB Nations League – "Best opposite spiker"

Clubs

  • 2007–08 Brazilian Superliga – Gorm silver cup.jpg Runner Up, with Molico Osasco
  • 2011–12 Brazilian Superliga – Simple cup icon.svg Champion, with Sollys Nestlé
  • 2016–17 Brazilian Superliga – Gorm silver cup.jpg Runner Up, with Vôlei Nestlé
  • 2020–21 Brazilian Superliga – Med 3.png Bronze medal, with Osasco Audax/São Cristovão Saúde
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