Yuriy Poyarkov
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Full name | Yuriy Mikhaylovich Poyarkov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Юрій Михайлович Поярков | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 February 1937 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 February 2017 Kharkiv, Ukraine | (aged 80)||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuriy Mikhaylovich Poyarkov (Ukrainian: Юрій Михайлович Поярков; 10 February 1937, in Kharkiv – 10 February 2017, in Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics, in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Career
[edit]In 1964, Poyarkov was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played eight matches.
Four years later, Poyarkov won his second gold medal with the Soviet team in the 1968 Olympic Games tournament. He played all nine matches.
At the 1972 Olympic Games, Poyarkov was a member of the Soviet team that won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played three matches.
Poyarkov died on his 80th birthday, on 10 February 2017.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Умер почётный гражданин Харькова Юрий Поярков (in Russian)
External links
[edit]- Yuriy Poiarkov at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Yuri Poyarkov at Olympics.com
- 1937 births
- 2017 deaths
- Soviet men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Ukrainian men's volleyball players
- Sportspeople from Kharkiv
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Ukrainian volleyball biography stubs