VOLKOV Dmitry

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Men	2018

Nations League - Final Round

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2019	United States of America
1	Men	2018	France

World League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2017

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2017	Poland
5	Men	2019

Volk ['Wolf' in Russian], Dima (VK profile, 26 Nov 2020; realnoevremya.ru, 12 Jun 2019)

Listening to music. (Athlete, 31 Jan 2020)

Athlete

Coaching - Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism, Krasnodar, RUS

Partner Ksenia Smirnova

English, Russian

Zenit Kazan [Russian Federation] since 2021

Aleksey Verbov [club], RUS; Tuomas Sammelvuo [national], FIN

Wing spiker (volley.ru, 20 Jul 2020)

He missed the first month of the 2019/20 season due to a hand injury. (rsport.ria.ru, 31 Oct 2019)

He missed the 2013/14 season due to a back injury. He was diagnosed with Scheuermann's disease after it was discovered that he was missing two vertebrae in his spine. (sports.ru, 08 Jul 2018)

Super League [RUS] (zenit-kazan.com, 05 Jul 2021)

He began playing volleyball at age seven in Novokuybyshevsk, Russian Federation. (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

His uncle played volleyball and his mother suggested he should try the sport. (fakelvolley.ru, 16 Apr 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (fakelvolley.com, 25 Oct 2020)

Winning gold at the 2017 European Championship in Poland, and winning both the 2018 and 2019 Nations League tournaments. (SportsDeskOnline, 22 Jun 2021; Athlete, 31 Jan 2020)

Russian volleyball player Sergey Tetyukhin, Brazilian volleyball player Giba. (realnoevremya.ru, 12 Jun 2019; Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

His parents. (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

"Only forward, only winning." (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

He was named as one of the three Best Outside Hitters of the Nations League in 2019 and as one of the two Best Outside Hitters of the Nations League in 2018. He and Serbian Uros Kovacevic were also named Best Outside Hitters at the 2018 Club World Championship in Poland. (volleyball.world, 14 Jul 2019, 08 Jul 2018; clubworldchampionships.2018.men.fivb.com, 02 Dec 2018)

He and Denis Kaliberda, of Germany, were named Best Spikers at the 2017 European Championship in Poland. (sports.ru, 04 Sep 2017)

He received the Best First Outside Spiker award at the 2015 World U21 Championship in Mexico. (fivb.com, 21 Sep 2015)

He was named as one of the two Best Outside Hitters at the 2013 World U19 Championship in Mexico. (fivb.org, 07 Jul 2013)

In 2017 he received the title of Master of Sport of International Class in the Russian Federation. (minsport.gov.ru, 18 Apr 2017)