Tamara Larrea

Tamara Larrea Peraza ( born November 25, 1973 in Havana ) is a former Cuban beach volleyball player. She participated in three Olympic Games.

Career

Larrea Peraza played her first Open tournaments in 1998 with Maria Eugenia Quevedo Lavastida. In 2000, she formed a duo for the first time with Dalixia Fernandez Grasset who participated in Sydney at the Olympic tournament. After a clear defeat against the Brazilian silver medalist, the Cubans were still fighting the last sixteen and there were subject to U.S. Americans Davis / Jordan. In 2001 she came with many FIVB tournaments in the top ten. At the World Championships in Klagenfurt they reached the second round without dropping a set, which she lost to Wood / Bragado from the U.S.. The Goodwill Games in Brisbane, they finished in eighth place. 2002 Larrea Peraza played with Milagros Victoria Crespo Valle and six times in a row at Ninth Open tournaments and Grand Slams.

In 2003, she was reunited with Fernandez Grasset and finished in Rhodes equal fourth place. At the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, the reunited duo failed in the first round of the later bronze medal winners Cook / Sanderson from Australia. The second Olympic participation of the two Cubans ended in 2004 in Athens in the second round against the Canadians Dumont / Martin. In Berlin, where they had already reached the final of the Grand Slam in 2004, she missed at the World Championship in 2005 by losing to the Chinese pair Tian Jia / Wang Fei barely a medal.

2007 Gstaad they lost in the World Cup preliminary round including against their national rivals Ribalta / Crespo and occupied after the second round defeat to the U.S. women Branagh / Youngs ninth place. Exactly the same result, there was a year later in the Olympic tournament in Beijing. After her third Olympic participation Larrea Peraza ended her international career.