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FIVB World Grand Prix 1997
The 1997 FIVB World Grand Prix was the fifth women's volleyball tournament of its kind. It was held over four weeks in eight cities throughout Asia, cumulating with the final round in Kobe, Japan, from 29 to 31 August 1997. Preliminary rounds Ranking The best three teams from the overall ranking and Japan as host are qualified for the final round. First round Group A *Venue: Macau Group B *Venue: Suwon, South Korea Second round Group C *Venue: Taipei, Taiwan Group D *Venue: Hong Kong Third round (extra) Group E *Venue: Gifu, Japan Final round *Venue: Kobe, Japan Final ranking Final standings Individual awards *Most valuable player: ** *Best scorer: ** *Best spiker: ** *Best blocker: ** *Best server: ** *Best setter: ** *Best digger: ** Dream Team Setter: ** Middle Blockers: ** ** Outside hitters: ** ** Opposite Spiker: ** ReferencesResults FIVB World Grand Prix 1997 in Japanese sport Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeniya Estes
Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (russian: Евге́ния Ви́кторовна Э́стес, born 17 July 1975 in Sverdlovsk), née Artamonova (Артамонова), is a Russian volleyball player who was a member of the national team and one of only two volleyball players (along with Sergey Tetyukhin) that competed consecutively in six Olympic Games and took the silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also won the Most Beautiful Women Volleyball Player Award, which was held on the occasion of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 1993 and sponsored by Japanese Monthly Volleyball Magazine. As a member of TOYOBO, she won the first runner-up of "Miss V-League". Honors * 1991 World Under-20 Championship — 1st place * 1991 World Cup — 3rd place * 1992 European Junior Championship — 1st place * 1992 Olympic Games — 2nd place * 1993 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd place * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeniya Artamonova
Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (russian: Евге́ния Ви́кторовна Э́стес, born 17 July 1975 in Sverdlovsk), née Artamonova (Артамонова), is a Russian volleyball player who was a member of the national team and one of only two volleyball players (along with Sergey Tetyukhin) that competed consecutively in six Olympic Games and took the silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also won the Most Beautiful Women Volleyball Player Award, which was held on the occasion of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 1993 and sponsored by Japanese Monthly Volleyball Magazine. As a member of TOYOBO, she won the first runner-up of "Miss V-League". Honors * 1991 World Under-20 Championship — 1st place * 1991 World Cup — 3rd place * 1992 European Junior Championship — 1st place * 1992 Olympic Games — 2nd place * 1993 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizaveta Tichtchenko
Yelizaveta Tishchenko (born 7 February 1975 in Kiev, last name also spelled Tichtchenko) is a retired female volleyball player from Russia, who made her debut for the Soviet national team in 1991. She competed in three consecutive Olympic Games (1996, 2000 and 2004), and twice won a silver medal. She represented her country more than 470 times from 1991 through 2004, playing as Middle Blocker in the starting 6 of the National Team and leading the Sbornaya as its Captain in 2003 & 2004. Liza won the European Championships (4 times), the World Grand Prix (3 times), and several medals at World Championships and World Grand Champions Cups. She was among the best attackers in each tournament entered, winning best spiker (attacker) awards at most international tournaments between 1999 and 2003, including the prestigious title of the world's ‘Best Spiker of the Year’ (FIVB 2002). With her club teams (namely Uralochka VC of Ekaterinburg) she won the Russian Championship 13 times an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Grachova
Tatyana Aleksandrovna Grachova (russian: Татьяна Александровна Грачёва, born 23 February 1973 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Also competed in 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... External linkssports-reference.com 1973 births Living people Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg Russian women's volleyball players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Olympic volleyball players for Russia Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Russia Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikumi Narita
is a former Japanese volleyball player. Her maiden name is . She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she ended up in fifth place with the Japan women's national team. Narita played as a wing-spiker. She was named ''Best Digger'' and ''Best Receiver'' at the 2004 FIVB Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament. Clubs *AsahikawaJitsugyo High School → NEC Red Rockets (1994–2001) → Hisamitsu Springs (2003–2007) → NEC Red Rockets (2007–2010) → Pioneer Red Wings (2009–2011) Honours *1996: 9th place in the Olympic Games *1998: 8th place in the World Championship *1999: 6th place in the World Cup *2004: 5th place in the Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ... Individual awards *1997 3rd V.League : Servereceive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regla Torres
Regla Torres Herrera (born February 12, 1975 in Havana) is a Cuban volleyball player who has won three Olympic gold medals with her first being at the young, for volleyball, age of 17. She has played on the international circuit since she was 14. In 2001, she was recipient of the ''Best Player of the 20th Century'' award by the FIVB and was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame. Awards References External links Regla Torresat the International Volleyball Federation International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ... * 1975 births Cuban women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Cuba Olympic gold me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evguenia Artamonova
Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (russian: Евге́ния Ви́кторовна Э́стес, born 17 July 1975 in Sverdlovsk), née Artamonova (Артамонова), is a Russian volleyball player who was a member of the national team and one of only two volleyball players (along with Sergey Tetyukhin) that competed consecutively in six Olympic Games and took the silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also won the Most Beautiful Women Volleyball Player Award, which was held on the occasion of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 1993 and sponsored by Japanese Monthly Volleyball Magazine. As a member of TOYOBO, she won the first runner-up of "Miss V-League". Honors * 1991 World Under-20 Championship — 1st place * 1991 World Cup — 3rd place * 1992 European Junior Championship — 1st place * 1992 Olympic Games — 2nd place * 1993 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Karpol
Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol (russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938) is a Soviet and Russian women's volleyball coach. Known as ''The Howling Bear'', Karpol was a regular at the Olympic Games, with his teams usually earning a last call on the Olympic podium, winning gold medals in Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1980 and Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1988 and taking the silver medals in Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1992, Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2000 and Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching VC Uralochka-NTMK, Uralochka for 51 years. Honours Olympic Games (as coach): * 1980, 1988 – gold, * 1992, 2000, 2004 – silver. World Championships: * 1990 – gold, * 1994, 1998, 2002 – bronze. Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Hanikoğlu
Natalia Hanikoğlu ( Belyaeva, born 23 June 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a Turkish-Russian volleyball player. She is 190 cm tall and plays as a middle blocker and outside hitter. She plays for Galatasaray Medical Park (women's volleyball), Galatasaray Medical Park and wears the number 7 jersey. She played over 100 times for the Russia national team, and when she received Turkish citizenship after marrying Turkish former volleyball player Hakan Hanikoğlu, she played over 200 times for the Turkey national team, too. She has a daughter whose name is Ela (meaning: Hazel) born in Moscow. She also played for VC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow, VC Zarechie Odintsovo, Zarechie Odintsovo in Russia, Ancona in Italy, Kocaelispor, Beşiktaş Women's Volleyball Team, Beşiktaş and Eczacıbaşı Istanbul, Eczacıbaşı in Turkey. Awards Club * 2011-12 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup, 2011–12 Turkish Cup – Runner-up, with Galatasaray Daikin * CEV Cup 2011-12, 2011–12 CEV Cup – Runner-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Safronova
Natalya Safronova (born 6 February 1979, in Krasnoyarsk), is a volleyball player from Russia. During her time playing with the Russian club Zarechie Odintsovo, she won the "Best Attacker" award at the 2006–07 CEV Cup. On 3 December 2009 she collapsed during training after suffering a stroke. She was in coma for 18 days and only regained her speech a year after the incident took place. She continues to recover from the stroke with her volleyball career likely to be over. Clubs * Uralochka Ekaterinburgo (1994–1998) * JT Marvelous (1998–1999) * Uralochka Ekaterinburgo (1999–2004) * Zarechie Odintsovo (2006–2008) * Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ... (2008–2009) Awards Individuals * 2006–07 CEV Cup "Best Attacker" Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Chukanova
Olga Viktorovna Khrzhanovskaya (russian: Ольга Викторовна Хржановская, née Chukanova (russian: Чуканова) (born 9 June 1980 in Temirtau) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates .... She currently plays for Universitet Belgorod. References Sports-reference.com(archived) External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khrzhanovskaya, Olga 1980 births Living people Russian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Russia Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Russia Sportspeople from Temirtau Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
