Yuri Borisovich Chesnokov (russian: Юрий Борисович Чесноков; January 22, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was a

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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 who competed for the

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in the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

. He was born in

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. Chesnokov was a two-time world champion, having won gold at the

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and the 1962 competitions.FIVB and Volleyball legend passes away
Retrieved 21 February 2019. In 1964 he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played eight matches. After his active career, he coached the Soviet team at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and later served as a FIVB vice-president for many years. In 2000 he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

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at sports-reference.com 1933 births 2010 deaths Soviet men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Russian men's volleyball players Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub