Aleksandr Volkov (volleyball)

As of August 23, 2012

Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (Russian: Александр Александрович Волков, English transcription: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, born 14 February 1985 in Moscow ) is a Russian volleyball player.

Career

Volkov started his career in 2002 in the UK Dynamo Moscow. In 2003, he won the European Championship with the Russian juniors. A year later the title defense succeeded in this competition and the middle blocker was with Dynamo also Russian runners-up. He then played for one season at VK sucking Moscow. He became Junior World Champion in 2005. On June 4 of that year, Volkov was in a Europe League game against Estonia made ​​his debut in the senior team. Then he returned to Dynamo and won with the club in 2006 the domestic double. 2007 Moscow runner and middle blocker reached with the national team in the finals of the World League and the European Championship on home soil. 2008 Dynamo again managed the Double. Volkov took with the Russians at the Olympic tournament in Beijing and won the bronze medal. 2010 defeated Dynamo in the final of the Champions League against Trentino Volley and Volkov was also in the World League back to second place. In the 2010/11 season he played in the Italian first division BreBranca Lannutti Cuneo, with whom he won the National Cup and was runner-up. The team won both the 2011 World League and the World Cup. In the same year, the middle blocker from UK Zenit -Kazan was committed. 2012 Kazan won the final of the Champions League against Skra Belchatow. Then Volkov was with Russia in London Olympic champion.