Irina Tebenikhina (born 5 December 1978 in
Fergana
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) is a
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 from
Russia
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, who represented her native country at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens
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,
Greece
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. There she won the silver medal with the
Women's National Team, for which she made her debut in 1997.
Honours
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1997 FIVB World Grand Prix
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
R ...
— 1st place
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1997 European Championship — 1st place
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1998 World Championship — 3rd place
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1998 FIVB World Grand Prix — 2nd place
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1999 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place
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2003 FIVB World Grand Prix
The FIVB World Grand Prix 2003 was the eleventh edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League. The 2003 edition was played by twelve countries from July 21 to August 3, 20 ...
— 2nd place
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2004 Olympic Games
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
— 2nd place
References
Profile
1978 births
Living people
Russian women's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players of Russia
Olympic silver medalists for Russia
People from Fergana
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
20th-century Russian women
21st-century Russian women
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