Yury Viktorovich Berezhko (russian: Юрий Викторович Бережко; born 27 January 1984) is a Russian

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player. He currently plays outside hitter for

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. He is an Olympic gold medalist (

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), bronze medalist (

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silver medalist and a silver medalist at the 2007 European Championship in

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, playing with the men's national team. Berezhko won Best server Award in 2009 European Championship. He won the award of Best Spiker in that occasion. In January, 2016 Yury Berezhko resumed performances for the Russian national team, helping the Russians qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Sporting achievements

CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...

2014/2015, with

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Individual awards

*2007 European Volleyball Championship – "Best Spiker" *2007 World League – "Best Spiker" *2009 European Volleyball Championship – "Best Server" *2003

European Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competiti ...

– "Best Receiver"

References

FIVB Profile
1984 births Living people People from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russian men's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Galatasaray S.K. (men's volleyball) players VC Zenit Kazan players Sportspeople from Khabarovsk Krai {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub