Elvis Contreras
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Tamayo
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| Full name | Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 July 1979 Tamayo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Santo Domingo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 365 cm (144 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 355 cm (140 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Al Arabi Kuwait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated: 26 October 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos (born 20 July 1979, in Tamayo),[1] also known as Elvis Contreras, is a male volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the silver medal with the Dominican Republic men's national volleyball team at the 2006 Pan-American Cup in Mexicali, Mexico.
Contreras won the Best Spiker award at the 2001 NORCECA Championship,[2] and Best Scorer at the 2005 version.[3]
At the 2007 NORCECA Championship, Contreras was awarded Best Receiver, and his national team finished in 5th place.[4]
Contreras won the Dominican Republic "2007 Volleyball Player of the Year".[5]
In mid-June 2012, the Poland club Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle announced his joining for the 2012–13 season.[6]
Contreras won the bronze medal in the 2012 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup playing with his national team, and also won the Best Receiver and Best Server awards.[7]
Contreras led the Technocrats to the title of the 2013 Caribbean Volleyball League,[8] also winning the Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer, Best Spiker, and Best Server awards in the Trinidad and Tobago-based tournament.[9] He then joined the Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté.[10]
In August 2014, Contreras announced that he would retire from the national team after the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.[11] At these games, the Dominican Republic won the gold medal for the first time,[12] and Contreras was awarded the Most Valuable Player, Best Outside Spiker, and Best Scorer.[13]
