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Volleyball player from the Dominican Republic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elnis Palomino Castillo (born 2 July 1986 in San Pedro de Macorís[1]) is a Dominican Republic male volleyball player who competed with the Dominican club La Romana in the 2013 FIVB Club World Championship.
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Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic | 2 July 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 342 cm (135 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 332 cm (131 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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Palomino was chosen Rookie of the Year in the 2006 Dominican Republic league, while playing with the club José Martí.[2] With the Dominican club Sánchez Ramírez Palomino played the 2008 Dominican Republic League season, winning the bronze medal.[3]
Palomino played with Distrito Nacional contributing to win the 2010 season Dominican Republic Volleyball League championship.[4] He then played with the professional club from the Argentinian League Instituto Dr. Carlos Pellegrini for the 2010-2011 season.[5] With his national team, he won the bronze medal in the 2009 Pan-American Cup[6] and he played the 2010 edition and won the bronze again in the 2012 cup.[7]
With the Dominican Republic national team he lost the chance to play the 2014 World Championship, after winning the gold medal and best server in the first round,[8] but his team lost to Puerto Rico the final qualifier round.[9]
Palomino lost the bronze medal in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games 2-3 from Mexico[10] but he won the 2014 regional games gold medal, the country's first ever gold.[11]
Palomino played in the 2013 FIVB Club World Championship with the Dominican club La Romana finishing in tied seventh place.[12] With his national team, Palomino won the 2013 NORCECA Final Four Cup silver medal and the Best Server individual award.[13] In 2014, Palomino played with the Dominican local team Los Alcarrizos from the Santo Domingo provincial tournament.[14]
For the 2014-2015 season he signed with the Lebanese club Riseleh Sarafand.[1] For this contract he was expelled from the national team because his Lebanese club was blamed of not paying the international transfer fee and for playing without permission.[15] He was later reinstated but refused to come back to the national team citing mistreatment and the difference of training conditions of the male and female national team.[16] Palomino played with Team IE from the American Professional Volleyball League in the 2016 season, ranking seventh with his team.[17]
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