Taras Khtey | |
Fullname: | Taras Yurevich Khtey |
Nationality: | Ukrainian Russian |
Birth Date: | May 22, 1982 |
Birth Place: | Zabuzhzhya, Ukraine, USSR |
Height: | 1.97 m |
Weight: | 00NaN0 |
Spike: | 0cm (00inches) |
Block: | 0cm (00inches) |
Position: | Outside hitter |
Years: | 1998–2003 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–2017 |
Teams: | MGTU Moscow Dinamo Moscow Ural Ufa Iskra Odintsovo Belogorie Belgorod |
Nationalyears: | 2002–2014 |
Updated: | 29 December 2017 |
Taras Yurevich Khtey (Ukrainian: Тарас Юрійович Хтей, Russian: Тарас Юрьевич Хтей, born 22 May 1982) is a Russian volleyball player, a member of Russia men's national volleyball team.
He was born in Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.
In 2004, he was part of the Russian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament, and, with the same team, he won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London after initially trailing 0:2 to Brazil in the finals. In 2011, as a part of the national team, Khtey won the World League and the World Cup.