Fullname: | Nelly Barnet Wilson |
Nelly Barnet | |
Height: | 1.84 m |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1951 |
Birth Place: | Camagüey, Cuba |
Nationalyears: | 1967–1978 |
Teamnumber: | 10 |
Nelly Barnet (born 13 January 1951) is a Cuban former volleyball player and three-time Olympian. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1] She won a gold medal with the Cuban team at the 1978 FIVB World Championship in the Soviet Union. She was known as a clutch player who would ask for the ball late in matches when they were close.[2]
Barnet also won a bronze medal at the 1967 Pan American Games, and a gold medal at the 1971 and 1975 Pan American Games.[3]