HUBERLI Tanja

Beach Volleyball

Date of Birth: 27 Aug 1992

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.90/6'2''

Place of birth: THALWIL

Birth Country:

Switzerland

Place of residence : BERN

Residence Country:

Switzerland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Beach Volleyball	Women SUI Huberli/Betschart	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool F #12 SUI Huberli/Betschart 2 GER Ludwig/Kozuch 1	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool F #24 SUI Huberli/Betschart 2 CZE Hermannova/Slukova 0 DNS	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Preliminary - Pool F #36 JPN Ishii/Murakami 1 SUI Huberli/Betschart 2	Finished
	Shiokaze Park - Centre Court	Women's Round of 16 #44 SUI Verge-Depre, A./Heidrich 2 SUI Huberli/Betschart 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2019	Hamburg, GER
9	Women	2017	Vienna, AUT
17	Women	2015	Netherlands
33	Women	2013	Stare Jablonki, POL

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2018	Netherlands
9	Women	2020	Jurmala, LAT
9	Women	2017	Jurmala, LAT
17	Women	2019	Moscow, RUS

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	-	3x	-	-
2020	Women	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Women	-	-	-	1x	2x	-	5x	3x	-
2018	Women	-	-	2x	-	-	-	3x	4x	-
2017	Women	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	4x	2x	1x

World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Women	Baden	Baden, AUT
2	2021	Women	Sochi	Sochi, RUS
3	2018	Women	Moscow	Moscow, RUS
3	2018	Women	The Hague	The Hague, NED
3	2017	Women	Porec	Porec, CRO
4	2019	Women	Gstaad	Gstaad, SUI
5	2021	Women	Gstaad	Gstaad, SUI
5	2021	Women	Ostrava	Ostrava, CZE
5	2021	Women	Cancun	Cancun, MEX
5	2019	Women	Vienna Major	Vienna, AUT
5	2019	Women	Las Vegas, NV	Las Vegas, NV, USA
5	2017	Women	World Tour Final	Hamburg, GER

Hubi (schweizer-illustrierte.ch, 03 Aug 2019)

Cooking, baking, spending time with friends, reading athlete biographies. (hueberli-betschart.ch, 01 Mar 2020; schweizer-illustrierte.ch, 03 Aug 2019)

Occupation:

Partner Ramon Zenhausern

Languages spoken:

English, French, German

Sebastian Beck [national], GER

Position style:

Left side, blocker (hamburg2019.com, 01 Jun 2019)

Right (hamburg2019.com, 01 Jun 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her partner Ramon Zenhausern has represented Switzerland in alpine skiing. He won a silver medal in men's slalom and a gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 May 2020; luzernerzeitung.ch, 15 Apr 2020)

In December 2019 she had a pulmonary embolism diagnosed and had to have surgery. (blick.ch, 15 Jan 2020; bote.ch, 19 Dec 2019)

She first took up volleyball at VBC March in Siebnen, Switzerland, playing both indoor and beach volleyball. She eventually began focusing on beach volleyball in 2012. (ochsnersport.ch, 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (coopzeitung.ch, 10 Jun 2019)

She and her teammate Nina Betschart always listen to the song 'Zurimaa' by Dodo before each match. (schweizer-illustrierte.ch, 03 Aug 2019)

She was named the Best Blocker at the 2019 World Championships in Hamburg, Germany, and at the 2018 European Championships in the Netherlands. (hueberli-betschart.ch, 01 Mar 2020)

She was named the Most Improved Player of the 2014 FIVB World Tour. (hueberli-betschart.ch, 01 Mar 2020)

General Interest

Previous teammates
Tanja Goricanec, Saraj Leemann, Marlen Brunner, Fabienne Geiger, Leslie Betz, Innes Egger (fivb.org, 2019)

General
PARTNERS
She teamed up with Nina Betschart in 2016, after her previous partner Tanja Goricanec retired from the sport. "There have been difficult moments when things aren't going as planned. That is when it is important for Nina and I to communicate openly and honestly, almost like in a relationship. I really appreciate Nina as a person. We laugh a lot together and I can also talk to her about personal things." (volleyball.ch, 01 Jul 2019; coopzeitung.ch, 10 Jun 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/tanja.huberli
Facebook Team: https://www.facebook.com/hueberlibetschart
https://instagram.com/tanjahueberli/
Athlete Website: https://www.hueberli-betschart.ch/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DNS:: Did not start

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