Viktoria Orsi Toth

Viktoria Orsi Toth (born 14 August 1990) is an Italian beach volleyball player who plays as a right-side blocker.

They qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics but Orsi Toth was suspended right before the tournament for a doping violation, for which she has maintained her innocence.

[6][7] Orsi Toth was five when her parents moved the family to Italy for their careers, eventually settling down in Santeramo in Colle.

[8][9] Orsi Toth credits Sirressi with making her become attracted to indoor volleyball,[10] and the two later became teammates on the Italy women's national under-18[11] and under-20 teams, as well as in the Serie A1 club Tena Volley Santeramo.

[3] She has been a member of the Centro Sportivo Aeronautica Militare since September 2015, with the current rank of Airman First Class (Italian: Primo Aviere).

[19] As the second-youngest player in the league, Orsi Toth made her debut in October as a substitute in the third set of her club's three-set loss against Unicom Starker Kerakoll Sassuolo.

[25] Over the course of the season, Orsi Toth played in 12 matches (19 sets) and recorded a hitting percentage of 0.23, slightly below her team's average of 0.27.

[28][a] Orsi Toth played in 24 matches (82 sets) for Santeramo in total, posting a hitting percentage of 0.15, which was well below her team's average of 0.27.

[41] The duo went on to compete at the U21 World Championships that September, claiming the silver medal following a three-set loss to the American team of Tara Roenicke and Summer Ross in the finals.

[43] The duo received a wild card into the main draw where they were seeded 48th;[46] they did not win any of their group stage matches and finished tied for 37th.

[42] Orsi Toth was also paired with Laura Giombini two months later at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, where they finished seventh.

[47] She made her FIVB World Tour debut playing with Giombini at the $190K Hague Open in August, but did not progress past the qualifying rounds.

[42] At the end of the month, Orsi Toth and Giombini were one of two teams—the other being Daniela Gioria and Giulia Momoli—to represent Italy at the FIVB World Cup Olympic Qualification Tournament.

[50][b] Italy advanced to the final country match-up where they lost against the Netherlands, and thus did not win one of the remaining qualification spots for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

[55] The new pairing entered the $220K Long Beach Grand Slam in July where they did not win any of their group stage matches and exited the tournament tied for 25th.

Orsi Toth and Menegatti's results improved after Long Beach, with fourth-place finishes at the $220K Moscow and São Paulo Grand Slams.

[56] At the beginning of 2014, Carvalho abruptly[57] left the national team programme and his coaching duties were handed over to Paulo "Paulao" Moreira Da Costa.

[58][59] Orsi Toth and Menegatti had a slow start to the season, failing to reach the podium in their first ten World Tour events.

[60] The duo finally earned their first World Tour medal as a team—after 15 previous attempts—at the $400K São Paulo Grand Slam in September.

[61] Seeded 11th, they upset the second-seeded Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross of the United States in the quarterfinals, followed by the ninth-seeded Madelein Meppelink and Marleen van Iersel of the Netherlands in the semifinals.

[42] In the finals against Brazil's seven-seeded Larissa França and Talita Antunes, Orsi Toth and Menegatti were unable to capitalise on several match points, eventually losing with a score of 21–18, 21–23, 19–21.

[63] Carvalho returned as their coach in early 2015,[64] and Orsi Toth and Menegatti started off the year with a bronze medal at the $300K Moscow Grand Slam in May.

[42] However, Menegatti was troubled by injuries in the first half of the season,[65][66] and they could not repeat the Moscow feat in their next eight tournaments, failing to advance to the knockout stage in three of them.

[71] On 2 August, three days before the start of the Olympics, Orsi Toth was found to have tested positive for clostebol,[72] an anabolic steroid that is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

[83] Around mid-2017, the two began discussing plans to restart their partnership after the ban ended,[83] and Orsi Toth went back to training two months prior to her return to competition.

On 18 July 2018, Orsi Toth's two-year ban ended and she resumed her partnership with Menegatti, now coached by Terenzio Feroleto.

OA Sport noted that early on in her career, she relied too heavily on outpowering rather than outsmarting opponents, but has since limited her attacking errors.

[44] Of the 111 players who competed in a Major Series main draw on the 2016 World Tour, Orsi Toth was ranked 18th for total points scored, averaging 7.54 points per set; 48th for number of aces, with around 4.75% of her serves being aces; and third for total blocks, averaging 1.69 blocks per set.