Yuri Cherednik
Personal information
Nickname	Юрий Чередник
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1966-06-25) 25 June 1966 Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	203 cm (6 ft 8 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter
Number	12 (national team)
Career
Years Teams 1994 Lube Treia Italy
National team
1988-1991 1992 1994  Soviet Union  CIS  Russia
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World Championship 1990 Brazil Team World Cup 1991 Japan World League 1991 Italy European Championship 1991 Germany Goodwill Games 1990 Seattle

Yuri Cherednik (Russian: Юрий Чередник, born 25 June 1966) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is 203 cm tall. Later he was part of the Russia men's national volleyball team.^[1] He played for Lube Treia Italy.

Biography

Cherednik was born at Chişinău and debuted in 1983 for Motorist Leningrad. In 1988 he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches.

Four years later he finished seventh with the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympic tournament. With the Soviet (or Unified Team) national team he won also a World Cup in 1991, the European Championships of 1991 and a bronze medal in the 1990 Championship.

Cherednik played in Italy from 1992 with Centromatic Prato (winning the title of MVP of Italy's A1 League that year). He subsequently played for Macerata, Bologna, Ferrara and others, before returning to Russia in 2006, where he concluded his playing career in 2007 with the Spartak St. Petersburg.

References

External links

• Yuri Cherednik at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (in Italian)
• Yuri Cherednik at Olympedia
• Volleybox.net Profile
• Complete career statistics (in Russian)
• Sports-reference.com Profile (archived)