Elisa Togut

Elisa Togut was on the Italian volleyball squad at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Italian women’s team to compete at the Olympics. She was decisive in helping Italy win the 2002 World Championships in Germany, where she was named the best player of the tournament.

A spiker with great power and determination, Togut débuted in the Italian First League at a very young age, in 1995 with Modena, and had excellent results with the youth national teams, earning a European junior title in 1996 and being runner-up at the Junior World Championships in 1997. She débuted for the national team at Assago on 17 November 1996 in an All Star Game Italy vs. Rest of the World (3-1) and collected over 300 caps. In addition to the World title, where she scored the last point in the final against the United States, she won the 2001 Mediterranean Games, and two second places at the Europeans (2001 and 2005) and the World Grand Prix in 2004.

Nationally, after two seasons with Modena, with a break of one year with Vignola in the Second League and one with Club Italia (a youth selection with a permanent training camp), Togut joined Busto Arsizio in 1999, and then Vicenza, Jesi and Perugia. With these clubs she won one European Cup Winners’ Cup (Modena 1996), one CEV Cup and one Italian SuperCup with Vicenza in 2001. In 2002 she was a recipient of the title of Knight of the Italy’s Republic and, in 2004, of the Collare d’Oro for sporting merits.