Larissa Beach Volleyball Brazil. Individually both have over 1 million in career earnings. Rio de janeiro brazil august 7 2016 it was just another day of playing beach volleyball at the highest level for rio olympic top seeds talita antunes and larissa franca as the brazilians won their opening match in the 2016 summer games by defeating ekaterina birlova and evgeniya ukolova of russia here sunday morning in two sets.
Larissa talita dominated the finals of the second to the last stage of the brazilian beach volleyball circuit for the 2014 2015 season jaboatão de guararapes brazil march 8 2015 larissa and talita made a remarkable finish after the pair took the season title of the brazilian beach volleyball circuit by beating elize maia josi in straight sets 21 18 21 13 at the candeias beach on sunday. Side dish brazil s talita antonelli have also announced that they will not play together anymore after the tourney in rio this weekend. Larissa is an eight time fivb world tour point champion and talita won the championship last year before teaming up with each other.
Paired with either juliana felisberta or talita antunes the fiery brazilian defender got in the way of usa teams on multiple occasions denying the country several medal opportunities at the international level.
Larissa has now earned 50 fivb career gold medals in her career while talita has won 22 gold medals including the four from this new partnership. Brazil s juliana silva r and larissa franca celebrate after defeating the netherlands madelein meppelink and sophie van gestel during their women s round of 16 beach volleyball match at horse. Official profile of olympic athlete larissa franca born 14 apr 1982 including games medals results photos videos and news. She switched to beach volleyball in 2001 and entered the rankings within six months.
