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Taliqua Clancy

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Taliqua Clancy
Clancy in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992 (age 32)
Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Years Teammate
2017–present Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Previous teammates
Years Teammate
2013–2017
2012–2013
2010–2012		 Louise Bawden
Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Eliza Hynes
Honours
Women's beach volleyball
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Beach
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Hamburg Beach
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Beach
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Beach
Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Silver medal – second place 2023 Uberlândia Elite 16
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Tepic Elite 16
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Doha Elite 16
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Torquay Elite 16
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Gstaad Elite 16
Gold medal – first place 2022 Espinho Challenge
Silver medal – second place 2022 Kuşadası Challenge
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cancún 3
Gold medal – first place 2020 Chetumal Open
Gold medal – first place 2019 Warsaw Open
Gold medal – first place 2018 Espinho Open
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lucerne Open
Gold medal – first place 2018 Sydney Open
Gold medal – first place 2018 Qinzhou Open
Silver medal – second place 2019 Jinjiang Open
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Xiamen Open
Bronze medal – third place 2018 World Tour Finals
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Xiamen Open
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Porec Major
Asian Beach Volleyball Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Maoming
Gold medal – first place 2018 Satun
Gold medal – first place 2017 Songkhla
Gold medal – first place 2015 Hong Kong
Gold medal – first place 2014 Jinjiang
Silver medal – second place 2022 Roi Et

Taliqua Clancy (born 25 June 1992) is an Australian volleyball and beach volleyball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball, partnered with Louise Bawden.[1][2] She is the first Indigenous Australian volleyball player to represent Australia at the Olympics. Clancy plays as a left-side blocker.[3]

Early life

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Clancy was born in Kingaroy, Queensland,[4] into a family of Indigenous Australian descent (Wulli Wulli and Goreng Goreng).[5] She spent the first 15 years of her life in Kingaroy. She turned down a netball scholarship offer from the Australian Institute of Sport and instead accepted a scholarship to the Queensland Academy of Sport for beach volleyball.[6] When Clancy was 17, she accepted an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship and relocated to Adelaide to participate in the national beach volleyball program.[citation needed] In 2019, she returned to her home state of Queensland and is now based in Brisbane.[citation needed]

Professional career

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Clancy in 2016

Rio de Janeiro – 2016 Olympics

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She participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with partner Louise Bawden, reaching the quarter-finals.[7]

Gold Coast – 2018 Commonwealth Games

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Clancy participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast with partner Mariafe Artacho del Solar. The Australian pairing won their 3 preliminary pool matches without losing a set, with wins over Cyprus's 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 easily dispatched 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 Aussie duo lost their first set of the tournament to send the match to the decider, which they won convincingly to advance to the gold medal match (21–19, 16–21, 15–9). In the match of the tournament, the Australian team came up agonisingly short against their more experienced and higher ranked Canadian opponents, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan (19–21, 20–22). Although their winning run came to an end, they secured a silver medal at their first Commonwealth Games together.[8]

Hamburg – 2019 World Championships

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Taliqua participated in the 2019 World Championships in Hamburg with partner Mariafe Artacho del Solar. The Australian pairing comfortably won their first preliminary match against Mauritius' Maita Cousin and Letendrie Nathalie (21–5, 21–6) before being defeated by the Dutch pair of Joy Stubbe and Marleen van Iersel (19–21, 22–24). In a must win match, the Australians prevailed by the slimmest of margins over the American duo of Brooke Sweat and Kerri Walsh Jennings (21–19, 24–22) to advance to the elimination rounds. It was during their first elimination match that Mariafe suffered an injury to her Medial Collateral Ligament in her left knee,[9] despite this injury, they defeated Canada's Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson (21–15, 21–19). Due to the injury, the Aussie pairing were unsure if they could continue with their round of 16 match against Switzerland's Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré the following day.[10] Nevertheless, in true Australian spirit, the duo played on and won a tight 3 set match against the Swiss (21–16, 21–23, 15–9).

Advancing to their first World Championships quarterfinal they were one win away from a top four finish, a remarkable achievement given Mariafe's injury. With no other teams being fully aware of the injury, the pair continued on and endured a battle royale in the first set of their quarterfinal against their Russian opponents Nadezda Makroguzova and Svetlana Kholomina eventually winning that set and comfortably closing out the match in the second (24–22, 21–14). Unfortunately, they were not able to back up their quarterfinal victory later that same day and were defeated in their semifinal by the American pairing of Alix Klineman and April Ross (15–21, 18–21). Despite not being at their best, the Australians continued to show true resilience; after the semi-final loss and pushing past the pain. They went on to win their bronze medal play-off against the Swiss team of Nina Betschart and Tanja Hüberli (21–18, 22–20) to claim one of their best results and most memorable achievements.[11]

Tokyo – 2020 Olympics

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On 4 August 2021, Clancy and partner Mariafe Artacho del Solar upset the world number-one team of Canada in the quarter-finals.[12] On 5 August, they defeated the Latvian team with a straight-sets win to advance to the gold-medal match against the United States,[13] which they subsequently lost to earn the silver medal.[14]

International Competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2013 2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships Stare Jabłonki, Poland 17th Beach
2015 2015 Beach Volleyball World Championships The Hague - Amsterdam - Apeldoorn - Rotterdam, Netherlands 5th Beach
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5th Beach
World Tour Finals Toronto, Canada 5th Beach
2017 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships Vienna, Austria 17th Beach
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Queensland 2nd Beach
World Tour Finals Hamburg, Germany 3rd Beach
2019 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships Hamburg, Germany 3rd Beach
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd Beach
2022 2022 Beach Volleyball World Championships Rome, Italy 5th Beach
Commonwealth Games Birmingham, England 2nd Beach
World Beach Pro Tour Finals Doha, Qatar 4th Beach
2023 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships Tlaxcala - Apizaco - Huamantla, Mexico 4th Beach
World Beach Pro Tour Finals Doha, Qatar 4th Beach
2024 Olympic Games Paris, France 4th Beach

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taliqua Clancy.
  1. ^ "Taliqua Clancy". Australian Olympic Committee website. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Taliqua Clancy". FIVB website. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Players Details: Taliqua Clancy". Beach Volleyball Major Series. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Taliqua Clancy - Pride, heritage and history". Australian Olympic Team. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Taliqua Clancy: Olympic Beach Volleyballer". Deadly Choices. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Taliqua Clancy". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  7. ^ Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
  8. ^ Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament
  9. ^ Mariafe Artacho Del Solar On Battling Through Injury, Success And What Comes Next
  10. ^ "Clancy and Artacho del Solar: A new class of beach volleyball". Tokyo 2020.
  11. ^ 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Women's tournament
  12. ^ "Aussies upset world No.1 pair in beach volleyball". wwos.nine.com.au. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Australia seals 21-year first after beach volleyball masterclass". Fox Sports. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Australia wins silver medal in women's beach volleyball final, with straight-sets loss to USA at Tokyo Olympics". ABC News. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
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