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| Full name | Mārtiņš Pļaviņš | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Latvian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-05-08) 8 May 1985 (age 39) Riga, Latvia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Riga, Latvia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born 8 May 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.
He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004. Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together.
At the 2008 Olympics, the #21-ranked Latvian team achieved a major upset in the preliminary round, beating the #1-ranked team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser (United States). Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst.
After the 2008 Olympics, he began playing together with Jānis Šmēdiņš. At the 2010 European Beach Volleyball Championships, Pļaviņš and Šmēdiņš won the bronze medal. They followed this up by winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They lost to Rego and Cerutti of Brazil in the semi-final but beat Nummerdor and Schuil of the Netherlands in the bronze medal match.
References
- Team Profile Archived 2008-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, Official site for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
- "Samoilovs un Pļaviņš pēc Pekinas kopā vairs nestartēs". Diena.lv. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
- Dalhausser, Rogers upset by Latvian duo
- "Mārtiņš Pļaviņš Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- "beach volleyball men results – Beach volleyball – London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
External links
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at FIVB.com
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at Olympedia (archive)
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at Olympics.com
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)
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| Preceded byVadims Vasiļevskis | Flagbearer for  Latvia 2012 London |
Succeeded byMāris Štrombergs |
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Preceded by Reinder Nummerdor (NED)
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Men's FIVB World Tour "Best Defender" 2012 |
Succeeded by Bruno Schmidt (BRA)
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- Latvian beach volleyball players
- Men's beach volleyball players
- Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic beach volleyball players for Latvia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Latvia
- Olympic medalists in beach volleyball
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2015 European Games
- European Games medalists in beach volleyball
- European Games gold medalists for Latvia
- Riga State Gymnasium No.1 alumni
- Latvian Academy of Sport Education alumni
- Sportspeople from Riga
- Beach volleyball defenders
- Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Latvian people