Russia men's national volleyball team

Russia
Association Volleyball Federation Of Russia
Confederation CEV
Head coach Vladimir Alekno
FIVB ranking 3 (as of October 2015)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Summer Olympics
Appearances 12 (First in 1964)
Best result Gold (1964, 1968, 1980, 2012)
World Championship
Appearances 18 (First in 1949)
Best result Gold (1949, 1952, 1960, 1962, 1978, 1982)
European Championship
Appearances 28 (First in 1950)
Best result Gold (1950, 1951, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2013)
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The Russia men's national volleyball team is the national volleyball team of Russia. It is governed by the Russian Volleyball Federation and takes part in international volleyball competitions. Russia winning Four Olympic Games in years (1964, 1968, 1980 and 2012), six World Championship (1949, 1952, 1960, 1962, 1978, and 1982), three World League and six World Cup and thirteen in European Championship.

FIVB considers Russia as the inheritor of the records of Soviet Union (1948–1991) and CIS (1992).

Results

Olympic Games

Soviet Union
Unified Team (CIS)
Russia

World Championship

Soviet Union
Russia

World Cup

Soviet Union
Russia

World Grand Champions Cup

World League

Soviet Union
CIS
Russia

European Championship

Soviet Union
Russia

European League

Team

Current squad

The following is the Russian roster in the Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's European qualification.[1]

Head coach: Vladimir Alekno

No. Name Date of birth Position current club
1Aleksey Obmochaev22 May 1989 Libero Dinamo Mosca
3Dmitry Kovalev15 March 1991 Setter VK Ural Ufa
4Artëm Volvich22 January 1990 Middle-blocker Loko Novosibirsk
5Sergey Grankin21 January 1985 Setter Dinamo Mosca
8Sergey Tetyukhin23 September 1975 Opposite VK Belogor'e
9Yury Berezhko27 January 1984 Opposite Dinamo Mosca
11Andrey Ashchev10 May 1983 Middle-blocker Zenit-Kazan'
12Konstantin Bakun15 March 1985 Outside-spiker Gazprom Surgut
15Dmitry Shcherbinin10 September 1989 Middle-blocker Dinamo Mosca
16Aleksey Verbov31 January 1982 Libero Zenit-Kazan'
17Maxim Mikhaylov19 March 1988 Outside-spiker Zenit-Kazan'
18Aleksandr Volkov14 February 1985 Middle-blocker VK Ural Ufa
19Egor Kliuka15 June 1995 Opposite Fakel Novyj Urengoj
20Artem Ermakov16 March 1982 LiberoRussia VC Dynamo Moscow
21Alexander Gutsalyuk15 January 1988 Middle-blockerRussia Zenit Kazan
22Aleksandr Markin28 July 1990 Opposite Dinamo Mosca

Coaches

References

  1. "Team Roster – Russia". Retrieved 18 February 2016.

External links

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