Natalia Hanikoğlu | |
Birth Name: | Natalya Nikolaevna Belyaeva |
Birth Date: | 1975 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Russia |
Height: | 1.90 m |
Weight: | 76 kg |
Spike: | 308 cm |
Block: | 302 cm |
Position: | Outside hitter |
Currentclub: | Beşiktaş Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi |
Currentnumber: | 7 |
Nationalyears: | 1994–99 1999-08 |
Nationalteam: | Russia Turkey |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Medals-Title: | Medal record |
Natalia Hanikoğlu (Belyaeva, born 23 June 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a Turkish-Russian volleyball player. She is 190 cm tall and plays as a middle blocker and outside hitter. She plays for Galatasaray Medical Park[1] and wears the number 7 jersey. She played over 100 times for the Russia national team, and when she received Turkish citizenship[2] after marrying Turkish former volleyball player Hakan Hanikoğlu,[3] she played over 200 times for the Turkey national team, too. She has a daughter whose name is Ela (meaning: Hazel) born in Moscow.[4]
She also played for CSKA Moscow, Zarechie Odintsovo in Russia, Ancona in Italy, Kocaelispor, Beşiktaş and Eczacıbaşı in Turkey.