FERNANDEZ STEINER Liliana

Beach Volleyball

Date of Birth: 4 Jan 1987

Age: 34

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.78/5'10''

Place of birth: BENIDORM

Birth Country:

Spain

Place of residence : TENERIFE

Residence Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Beach Volleyball	Women ESP Liliana/Elsa	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool B #08 NED Keizer/Meppelink 1 ESP Liliana/Elsa 2	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool B #14 USA April/Alix 2 ESP Liliana/Elsa 0	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool B #26 ESP Liliana/Elsa 0 CHN Xue/Wang X.X. 2	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Lucky Loser #37 JPN Ishii/Murakami 0 ESP Liliana/Elsa 2	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Round of 16 #39 CAN Pavan/Melissa 2 ESP Liliana/Elsa 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
9	Women	2012	London, GBR

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Women	2015	Netherlands
9	Women	2013	Stare Jablonki, POL
9	Women	2011	Rome, ITA
17	Women	2019	Hamburg, GER

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Moscow, RUS
4	Women	2018	Netherlands
9	Women	2020	Jurmala, LAT

World Tour - Tally of rank achieved per season since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	7th	9th	17th	19th-37th
2021	Women	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	3x	1x
2019	Women	-	-	-	-	4x	-	5x	2x	-
2018	Women	-	-	-	-	1x	-	3x	2x	1x

World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
5	2019	Women	World Tour Final	Rome, ITA
5	2019	Women	Moscow	Moscow, RUS
5	2019	Women	Espinho	Espinho, POR
5	2019	Women	The Hague	The Hague, NED
5	2018	Women	Warsaw	Warsaw, POL
9	2021	Women	Doha	Doha, QAT
9	2019	Women	Gstaad	Gstaad, SUI
9	2019	Women	Warsaw	Warsaw, POL
9	2019	Women	Jinjiang	Jinjiang, CHN
9	2019	Women	Itapema	Itapema, BRA
9	2019	Women	Las Vegas, NV	Las Vegas, NV, USA
9	2018	Women	Espinho	Espinho, POR
9	2018	Women	Ostrava	Ostrava, CZE
9	2018	Women	Itapema	Itapema, BRA

Lili (vplilielsa.com, 10 May 2016)

Occupation:

Advertising, Public Relations, Tourism

Husband Eduardo, son Saul

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Sebastian Menegozzo [personal], ARG, from 2018

Right (TheBeachVolleyballZone's YouTube channel, 06 Aug 2015)

Other sports:

She played volleyball at Superliga level in Spain. (diarioinformacion.com, 02 May 2016)

2006 for Spain, in Valencia, Spain (bvbinfo.com, 06 Jul 2016)

She fractured a finger while competing at the 2018 European Championships in Netherlands. The injury obliged her and her teammate Elsa Baquerizo to withdraw from the bronze medal game. (comunidadvoley.com, 25 Jul 2018)

She injured her shoulder in 2011. A rehabilitation process got her through the 2012 Olympic Games in London but she needed surgery after the Games. (raulcosin.com, 31 Jan 2016; europapress.es, 07 Feb 2020)

She began playing indoor volleyball at age 13 and took up beach volleyball at age 18. (raulcosin.com, 31 Jan 2016)

She played volleyball in Benidorm, Spain. In 2005 she was feeling tired with the sport, then she received an offer to train in beach volleyball in Tenerife, Spain. "I loved it. I came home after a few months and told my [volleyball] club that I didn't want to continue." (lasprovincias.es, 30 Jan 2018)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (rtve.es, 18 Nov 2020)

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, Spanish sprint paddler David Cal. (rtve.es, 18 Nov 2020)

Competing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (rtve.es, 18 Nov 2020)

Philosophy:

"Don't listen to anyone that says you are not worth it." (elmiradorbenidorm.com, 02 Dec 2010)

She received the Best Female Athlete of the Year Award from the municipality of Benidorm, Spain, in 2019. (benidorm.org, 11 Jan 2020)

She was recipient of the Sports Merit Award from the government of the autonomous region of Valencia in Spain, in 2019. (fvbcv.com, 11 Oct 2019)

General Interest

Previous teammates
Nuria Moncunill, Cristina Hopf, Alejandra Simon, Ilenia Arocha (fivb.org, 18 Jun 2016)

General
PARTNERSHIP
She began playing with teammate Elsa Baquerizo in 2007 when they were both attending the High Performance Centre in Arona, Spain. In 2017 they took time off while Fernandez was pregnant, before returning to compete together in 2018 with a new coach, Sebastian Menegozzo. "The love we have for each other gives double value to our victories, and allows us to quickly overcome the disappointment when we lose." (proyectofer.es, 26 Apr 2016; as.com, 28 Sep 2011; diarioinformacion.com, 02 May 2016; abc.es, 03 Jun 2012; vplilielsa.com, 10 May 2016; Facebook team page, 01 Jul 2016; europapress.es, 07 Feb 2020; telemadrid.es, 24 Jun 2019)

Milestones

She and her partner Elsa Baquerizo became the first women's team from Spain to compete in beach volleyball at the Olympic Games when they took part in the 2012 edition in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 18 Apr 2020)

She and her partner Elsa Baquerizo became the first women's team from Spain to win a medal in a World Tour event when they claimed silver in Aland, Finland, in 2012. (efe.com, 18 Nov 2020, SportsDeskOnline, 22 Nov 2020)

Social Media

GOOGLEPLUS.: https://plus.google.com/+LiliElsaVoleyPlaya
https://instagram.com/liliana.fernandez.steiner/
Team Instagram: https://instagram.com/voley_playa_liliana_elsa/
https://twitter.com/VP_Lili_Elsa
Athlete Website: http://www.vplilielsa.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/lilisteiner/videos

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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