Marina Igorevna Sheshenina (russian: Марина Игоревна Шешенина) (born 26 June 1985 in Sverdlovsk) 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 Summ ...

player from

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, who plays as a setter. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the

2006 FIVB Women's World Championship The 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, FIVB Women's World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the competition, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Th ...

. She also competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics 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), ...

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, claiming the silver medal.

Clubs

* Uralochka-NTMK (2006)

References

FIVB Profile
1985 births Living people Russian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub