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Valery Losev
Personal information
Nickname	Валерий Лосев
Nationality	Russian Kyrgyzstani
Born	(1956-02-28) February 28, 1956 (age 68) Tashkömür, Kyrgyz SSR
Height	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Number	8
National team
1982–1989  Soviet Union
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World Championship 1982 Argentina 1986 France Team Goodwill Games 1986 Moscow European Championship 1985 Netherlands 1987 Belgium

Valery Losev (Russian: Валерий Лосев, born 28 February 1956) is a Kyrgyzstani former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He was a setter.

In 1988, Losev was part of the Soviet team that won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches.

Losev also helped the Soviet team to the gold medal in the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow by defeating the United States in the final.

References

1. "Valery Losev". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
2. ^ Vecsey, George (20 July 1986). "Goodwill Games; Soviet Edges U.S. for Volleyball Title". The New York Times. sec. 5 p. 7. Retrieved 3 April 2024. (subscription required)
3. ^ "Valery Losev". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017.

External links

• Valery Losev at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (in Italian)
• Valery Losev at Olympedia
• Volleybox.net profile
• Sports-reference.com profile (archived)

v t e Soviet Union squad – 1982 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship – Gold medal
Vladimir Dorokhov Sergey Gribov Viljar Loor Valery Losev Oleg Moliboga Yury Panchenko Aleksandr Savin Pāvels Seļivanovs Vladimir Shkurikhin Oleg Smugilev Oleksandr Sorokalet Vyacheslav Zaytsev Coach: Viacheslav Platonov

v t e Soviet Union squad – 1986 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship – Silver medal
Yaroslav Antonov Alexander Beleveich Valery Losev Yury Panchenko Igor Runov Yuri Sapega Aleksandr Savin Pāvels Seļivanovs Vladimir Shkurikhin Oleksandr Sorokalet Raimonds Vilde Vyacheslav Zaytsev Coach: Gennadiy Parshin

v t e Soviet Union men's volleyball squad – 1988 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
Yaroslav Antonov Yuri Cherednik Evgeni Krasilnikov Andrei Kuznetsov Valery Losev Yury Panchenko Igor Runov Yuri Sapega Vladimir Shkurikhin Oleksandr Sorokalet Raimonds Vilde Vyacheslav Zaytsev Coach: Gennady Parshin

• 1956 births
• Living people
• Soviet men's volleyball players
• Russian men's volleyball players
• Kyrgyzstani men's volleyball players
• Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
• Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic medalists in volleyball
• People from Jalal-Abad Region
• Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent
• Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• 20th-century Russian sportsmen