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Giba
Gilberto "Giba" Godoy Filho anchored Brazil's men's national volleyball team through its most dominant international stretch, winning Olympic gold in 2004, a second gold in 2016 on home soil in Rio, and a combined haul of three World Championship titles across a two-decade international career. Named the FIVB's Best Player in the World a record four times, an award voted on after major tournaments, Giba's outside-hitter combination of explosive attacking power and reliable back-row defense made him the focal point of a Brazilian program that turned volleyball into one of the country's most closely followed sports outside of soccer. His 2016 Rio Olympic gold, won in his home country in what was announced as his final international tournament, is remembered as one of the most emotional farewell performances in the sport's history — a fitting final chapter for a player whose career had spanned Brazil's rise from a good national program to the sport's dominant international power. Giba's longevity was as notable as his peak dominance — he remained a starting-level international player into his late 30s, well past when most volleyball attackers' explosiveness typically declines, and he's still widely cited alongside Karch Kiraly as one of the two players who best defined men's volleyball across the sport's modern era.
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Zhu Ting
Zhu Ting led China to gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, earning MVP honors for a tournament in which she was widely regarded as the single most dominant player on the court in nearly every match she played, part of a run that reestablished China as a genuine power in women's volleyball after a period of relative decline. She was named MVP of the 2016 Olympics, the 2015 Asian Championship, and the 2019 World Cup, a run of major-tournament MVP awards across multiple years and multiple competition formats that few volleyball players of either gender have matched in such a short span. Zhu's move to Italy's Vakifbank Istanbul (playing in the Turkish league) in 2016 made her one of the sport's highest-paid players at the time, a signing that reflected how far her individual reputation had grown beyond China's own domestic league and into the sport's most competitive European club circuit. Her combination of height, attacking power, and reliable serve-receive — a defensive skill many pure power hitters don't develop to an elite level — made her one of the most statistically complete outside hitters of her generation, and she's widely regarded as the best women's volleyball player to emerge from China since the sport's 1980s golden generation.
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