Sergiy_Popov_(beach_volleyball)

Sergiy Popov (beach volleyball)

Sergiy Popov (beach volleyball)

Ukrainian beach volleyball player

Sergiy Popov (born 6 August 1991) is a Ukrainian beach volleyball player.[1]

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Career

Sergiy competed for Ukraine at the 2009 FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships, held in Alanya, where he won a gold medal with Valeriy Samoday.[2]

Popov and Samoday won a gold medal at the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships, held in Halifax.[3] They also won bronze medals in men's event at the 2011 Summer Universiade.[4]

In the next year, they represented Ukraine at the 2012 European U22 Beach Volleyball Championships, where Samoday and Popov also won gold medals.[5]

At the next year, Popov/Samoday competed at the 2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships,[6] but they didn't reach a final (17th place).[7] They also competed at the 2013 European Beach Volleyball Championships without reaching a final.[8]

In 2014, Popov and his new partner Illia Kovalov competed at the European Tour in Antalya and World Tour in Anapa without reaching a final.[9]

In the following years, he reached a gold medal in Poreč and a bronze medal in Vaduz at the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Vladyslav Iemelianchyk.[10][11]

Popov with his partner Iaroslav Gordieiev competed at the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and 2020 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour without reaching any medals.[9]

Since 2021, Eduard Reznik is a partner of Sergiy Popov.[12]

In 2022, Popov and Reznik competed at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour,[13] where they won three silver and one bronze medals.[14][15][16]

Reznik and Popov competed for Ukraine at the 2023 European Beach Volleyball Championships, held in Vienna, where they won bronze medals.[17] That is the first achievement for Ukrainian national beach volleyball team at these European Championships.[18]

Reznik and Popov competed at the 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships without reaching round of 16.[19][20]

References

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    "ПОПОВ: "В МИРЕ НИКТО НЕ ЗАМЕТИЛ, ЧТО РОССИИ НЕТ"". xsport.us (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "2012 CEV U23 Beach Volleyball European Championship: Results - Men". European Volleyball Confederation. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Украинская пара пробилась в финал чемпионата мира по пляжному волейболу". telegraf.com.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Богатов и Пастухов прошли в 1/16 финала ЧЕ по бич-волею". championat.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Sergiy Popov". beach. volleyball.net (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Iemelianchyk and Popov secure historic gold medal for Ukraine in Poreč". old.cev.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Россияне Самодай и Мыськив вышли в финал турнира Мирового тура в Лихтенштейне". old.cev.eu (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Eduard Reznik". beach. fivb.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Ukraine's Popov & Reznik make second back-to-back Beach Pro Tour semifinal". en.volleyballworld.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
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    "Одеський спортсмен став срібним призером турніру з пляжного волейболу". suspline.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "The Odessa athlete achieved the highest achievement in the history of Ukrainian sports". odessa.journal.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Одеський волейболіст вперше в історії завоював медаль чемпіонату Європи". ukr.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Сергій Попов та Едуард Рєзнік – бронзові призери чемпіонату Європи 2023". ukr.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Пляжний волейбол. Одеса вдруге в історії буде представлена на чемпіонаті світу". noc.odessa.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Сергій Попов та Едуард Рєзнік вибули з ЧС-2023 з пляжного волейболу: підсумки турніру для українців". suspline.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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