Borys Pavlovich Tereshchuk ( uk, Борис Павлович Терещук; 18 March 1945 – 10 June 2011) was a Ukrainian former

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 Sum ...

player who competed for the

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in the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

. He was born in

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. In 1968, he was part of the Soviet team that won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played eight matches.

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* * 1945 births 2011 deaths Ukrainian men's volleyball players Soviet men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Sportspeople from Kyiv Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{Ukraine-volleyball-bio-stub