Aleksandr Vladimirovich Korneev (russian: Александр Владимирович Корнеев, born 11 September 1980) is a retired

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player from

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. He was born in

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. His daughter

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is a professional tennis player and two-time junior Grand Slam champion. He competed at the

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, where Russia claimed the bronze medal.

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