Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
Personal information
Full nameMārtiņš Pļaviņš
NationalityLatvian
Born (1985-05-08) 8 May 1985
Riga, Latvia
HometownRiga, Latvia
Height190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Teammate
Edgars Točs
Previous teammates
Years Teammate Tours (points)
2004–2008 2008–2012 2013 2013- Aleksandrs Samoilovs Jānis Šmēdiņš Jānis Pēda Hermans Egleskalns 35 (2210)
Honours
Men's beach volleyball
Representing  Latvia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Berlin Team
European Games
Gold medal – first place2015 BakuTeam

Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born 8 May 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.

He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004.[1] Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together.[2]

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).[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Team Profile Archived 2008-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, Official site for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  2. ↑ "Samoilovs un Pļaviņš pēc Pekinas kopā vairs nestartēs". Diena.lv. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ Dalhausser, Rogers upset by Latvian duo
  4. ↑ "Mārtiņš Pļaviņš Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  5. ↑ "beach volleyball men results – Beach volleyball – London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
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