MIKHAYLOV Maxim

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2012	London, GBR
3	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN
4	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2010	Italy
6	Men	2018

Nations League - Final Round

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2018	France

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2017	Poland
5	Men	2019

Machine Gun, Max (teamrussia.pro, 08 May 2020; FIVB Media Guide, 2012)

Walking, listening to music, watching films, playing computer games, ice hockey. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2020)

Athlete

Physical Education - Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation

Wife Anastasia, son Nikita [2015]

English, Russian

Zenit Kazan [Russian Federation] since 2010

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

Wing spiker (zenit-kazan.com, 29 Jan 2020)

2008 for Russian Federation Against Republic of Korea, World League in Suwon, Republic of Korea (ntm-tv.ru, 16 Jun 2008)

He was sidelined for the Final Six of the 2019 Nations League in the United States of America due to injury. (sport-express.ru, 15 Sep 2019)

He missed the 2014 World League season after undergoing surgery on both ankles following training injuries in Kazan, Russian Federation. (itar-tass.com, 19 Jun 2014; volleyball.sport-express.ru, 28 Jun 2014)

He missed the early rounds of the 2013 World League because of a shoulder injury. (championat.com, 20 Jul 2013)

He competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London despite injuring his ankle two days before the tournament began. (sport-express.ru, 21 Aug 2012)

Super League [RUS] (zenit-kazan.com, 16 Nov 2020)

He began playing volleyball at age eight in Kuzmolovsky, Russian Federation. (gov.spb.ru, 03 Aug 2016)

He wanted to take up a sport and the only option at his local sports club was volleyball. "I saw the volleyball players and I liked the sport right away." (sovsport.ru, 02 Apr 2008)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (news.sportbox.ru, 08 Aug 2020)

Winning gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2020)

Russian volleyball player Sergey Tetyukhin. (sport-express.ru, 30 Sep 2010)

His mother, and his coaches. (vsevreg.ru, 29 Aug 2012)

"You should work all the time and believe that you will succeed. I know well how people change, and often not for the better, so be yourself." (vsevreg.ru, 29 Aug 2012)

In June 2021 he and fencer Sophia Velikaia were selected as flag bearers for the Russian Olympic Committee team at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tass.com, 30 Jun 2021)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2018 Nations League in France. (fivb.org, 28 Jan 2019)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2017/18 Champions League. (cev.eu, 13 May 2018)

He received the Male Volleyball Player of the Year award at the 2017 European Volleyball Confederation [CEV] European Volleyball Gala. (pzps.pl, 18 Nov 2017)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the 2017 European Championship in Poland. (sports.ru, 04 Sep 2017)

He received the Best Opposite award at the 2015/16 Champions League Final Four in Poland. (fivb.com, 17 Apr 2016)

He was named Best Spiker at the 2016 European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Berlin, Germany. (zenit-kazan.com, 12 Jan 2016)

For his performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he received the Order of Friendship in the Russian Federation. (kremlin.ru, 13 Aug 2012)

He received the Best Scorer and Best Spiker awards at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (FIVB, 12 Aug 2012)

In 2011 he was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] and Best Blocker in the World League, MVP at the World Cup in Japan, and Best Scorer and Spiker at the European Championships in Austria and Czech Republic. (FIVB, 04 Dec 2011; zenit-kazan.com, 07 May 2014)

In 2008 he received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (stadium.ru, 10 Apr 2013)