Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Australian beach volleyball player
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Mariafe Artacho del Solar (born 24 October 1993)[3] is an Australian beach volleyball player. She represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Artacho del Solar plays as a right-side defender.[4] As of 21 January 2020, she and partner Taliqua Clancy were ranked 5th according to the Women's FIVB World Rankings.
Lima, Peru[1]
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| Born | 24 October 1993 Lima, Peru[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life
Del Solar moved with her mother from Lima, Peru to Sydney when she was 11 years old.[2] They joined her older brother and extended family who already lived there. She spoke limited English and found that sport was the best way to communicate.[5] She attended Gordon West Public School before attending Killara High School, where she met her future Rio Olympics beach volleyball partner Nicole Laird.[2]
Del Solar was then offered an AIS Scholarship with the beach volleyball program in 2012, which led her to move to Adelaide, South Australia, where the Australian Beach Volleyball Program is located.[citation needed]
Professional career
Rio de Janeiro – 2016 Olympics
Del Solar made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with then-partner Nicole Laird. The pair did not win a match in Rio, losing to the US, Switzerland, and China in their preliminary pool matches, finishing the tournament in 19th place.[1]
Gold Coast – 2018 Commonwealth Games
Del Solar participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast with partner Taliqua Clancy. The duo won their three preliminary pool matches without losing a set, with wins over Cyprus' Manolina Konstantinou and Mariota Angelopoulou (21–14, 21–9), Grenada's Renisha Stafford and Thornia Williams (21–2, 21–11), and Scotland's Lynne Beattie and Melissa Coutts (21–9, 21–9). Finishing top of their pool, they advanced to the quarter-finals, where they defeated Rwanda's Charlotte Nzayisenga and Denyse Mutatsimpundu (21–9, 21–8) to advance to the semi-finals. After winning the opening set of their semi-final against Vanuatu's pairing of Linline Matauatu and Miller Pata, the duo lost their first set of the tournament, sending the match to the decider, which they won to advance to the gold medal match (21–19, 16–21, 15–9). At the gold medal match, the duo lost to Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan (19–21, 20–22) to take home the silver medal.[6]
FIVB World Tour 2019
Del Solar and Clancy are currently competing on the FIVB World Tour. The pair have already won a Bronze in Xiamen, China and Gold in the Asian Beach Volleyball Championships at Maoming. They competed at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Hamburg, Germany, from 28 June to 7 July, winning bronze. Due to an injury to Del Solar's left knee, the pair took three months off before competing again towards the end of 2019, during which they won gold at the 4-star double gender event in Chetumal, Mexico.
Tokyo – 2020 Olympics
On August 4, 2021, Del Solar and partner Taliqua Clancy upset the world number-one team of Canada in the quarter-finals.[7] On August 5, 2021, they defeated the Latvian team with a convincing straight-sets win to advance to the gold-medal match against the United States.[8] They lost to the U.S. in the finals, and took the silver medal.[9]
Coaching
From August to October 2021, Del Solar coached Year 10 high-school volleyball at Ormiston College in Brisbane, Australia.[citation needed]
Personal life
Del Solar is married to Jack Curtin; their wedding took place at a registry in November 2020.[10]
