Sergiy Popov (beach volleyball)
Ukrainian beach volleyball player
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Sergiy Popov (born 6 August 1991) is a Ukrainian beach volleyball player.[1]
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| Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 August 1991 Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Beach volleyball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Sergiy competed for Ukraine at the 2009 FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships, held in Alanya, where he won a gold medal with Valeriy Samoday.[2]
Popov and Samoday won a gold medal at the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships, held in Halifax.[3] They also won bronze medals in men's event at the 2011 Summer Universiade.[4]
In the next year, they represented Ukraine at the 2012 European U22 Beach Volleyball Championships, where Samoday and Popov also won gold medals.[5]
At the next year, Popov/Samoday competed at the 2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships,[6] but they didn't reach a final (17th place).[7] They also competed at the 2013 European Beach Volleyball Championships without reaching a final.[8]
In 2014, Popov and his new partner Illia Kovalov competed at the European Tour in Antalya and World Tour in Anapa without reaching a final.[9]
In the following years, he reached a gold medal in Poreč and a bronze medal in Vaduz at the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Vladyslav Iemelianchyk.[10][11]
Popov with his partner Iaroslav Gordieiev competed at the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and 2020 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour without reaching any medals.[9]
Since 2021, Eduard Reznik is a partner of Sergiy Popov.[12]
In 2022, Popov and Reznik competed at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour,[13] where they won three silver and one bronze medals.[14][15][16]
Reznik and Popov competed for Ukraine at the 2023 European Beach Volleyball Championships, held in Vienna, where they won bronze medals.[17] That is the first achievement for Ukrainian national beach volleyball team at these European Championships.[18]
Reznik and Popov competed at the 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships without reaching round of 16.[19][20]