Tandara Caixeta

Tandara Alves Caixeta (born 30 October 1988) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.

In 2011, she was selected for the Brazil team for the first time and won gold in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara before becoming an Olympic champion in London in 2012.

Again in the 2019/2020 season, she broke her record, scoring an unbelievable 40 points in 4 sets, the highest mark in the history of volleyball on the Brazilian courts.

[3] During the 2020 Summer Olympics, she was provisionally suspended for doping ahead of Brazil's semi-final against South Korea.

[4] Brazil ultimately won the silver medal at the tournament, and though suspended, Caixeta was still listed as a medalist, pending the outcome of the doping investigation.