Viacheslav Borisovich Krasilnikov ( rus, Вячеслав Борисович Красильников, , vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf krɐˈsʲilʲnʲɪkəf; born 28 April 1991) is a Russian

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player. Krassilnikov finished fifth in the 2009 World Youth Championship in Alanya with Artyom Kucherenko. In 2012, he played his first Grand Slam on the World Tour with Ruslan Bykanov in Moscow. He competed at the

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, in the men's beach volleyball tournament. There, Krasilnikov paired with

Konstantin Semenov Konstantin Sergeyevich Semenov (russian: Константин Сергеевич Семёнов; born 9 June 1989, Tokmok) is a Russian beach volleyball player. He competed for Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics with his teammate Sergey Prokopy ...

, finishing as fourth. With Oleg Stoyanovskiy he won the men's gold medal at

2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships The 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships was held in Hamburg, Germany from 28 June to 7 July 2019.

Sporting achievements

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships

* 2017

with Nikita Lyamin * 2019 Gold medal with cup

with Oleg Stoyanovskiy

European Beach Volleyball Championships

* 2016

with

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with Oleg Stoyanovskiy

National championships

* 2013

Russian Championship, with Ruslan Bykanov * 2015 Silver medal with cup

Russian Championship, with Ruslan Bykanov * 2018 Gold medal with cup

Russian Championship, with Nikita Lyamin *2020 Gold medal with cup

Russian Championship, with Oleg Stoyanovskiy

World Cup events

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The Hague, Kish Island (with Nikita Lyamin) *

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The Hague, Xiamen, World Tour Finals (with Oleg Stoyanovskiy)

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* * * * 1991 births Living people Russian beach volleyball players Olympic beach volleyball players of Russia Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball defenders Sportspeople from Krasnodar Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in beach volleyball {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub