Igor Kolodinsky

As of June 10, 2011

Igor Georgijewitsch Kolodinski (Russian Игорь Георгиевич Колодинский; * July 7, 1983 in Magdeburg ) is a Russian volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career

Kolodinski first played in the hall at VK locomotive Belogorje. In the 2002/03 season with the club he managed the triples from the Russian Cup, the national cup final and winning the Champions League. The title in the championship and the Champions League could Belgorod defend in the following season. 2005 Kolodinski became the third consecutive Russian title and a year later it still was enough for second place.

In the summer of 2005, he also began a career in beach volleyball. His first two international tournaments in Salvador and Cape Town, he played with Stanislav Eremin, before he first took up with Leonid Kalinine 2006 Russian Champion. In Vitória, he had his first joint appearance with his longtime partner Dmitry Barsuk and immediately achieved a top ten placement. 2007 won the duo's three bronze medals in open tournaments. At the World Championships in Gstaad Kolodinski / Barsuk documents only in the finale the Americans Todd Rogers / Phil Dalhausser. In addition, they were fifth in the European Championships in Valencia and second ahead of his home crowd in Saint Petersburg. After the third place at the 2008 European Championship they won in Klagenfurt the first Russian beach volleyball player, a Grand Slam tournament. She then participated in the Olympic tournament in Beijing and occupied the ninth place.

In the 2008 /09 season Kolodinski also played again in the hall at VK Dynamo Krasnodar. The last major success with Barsuk Beach was the victory in the Kristiansand Open 2009. Kolodinski After moving to ZSK Gazprom - Ugra Surgut, before he returned to Belgorod in December 2010. In the sand he made from the Prague Open 2010, a new duo with Jaroslaw Koschkarew and was at the Grand Slam in Gstaad and Stavanger and at the European Championships in Berlin each fifth.