Vera Vetrova | |
Fullname: | Vera Alexandrovna Vetrova (Ulyakina) |
Birth Date: | 1986 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Weight: | 73kg (161lb) |
Spike: | 298 cm |
Block: | 293 cm |
Position: | Setter |
Currentclub: | Dynamo Moscow |
Currentnumber: | 9 (club and national team) |
Nationalyears: | 2010–2017 |
Nationalteam: | Russia |
Updated: | 20 January 2017 |
Vera Alexandrovna Vetrova, née Ulyakina (Russian: Ве́ра Алекса́ндровна Ве́трова, born 21 August 1986 in Gorky) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russia women's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Women's World Championship in Japan,[1] the 2011 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix in China,[2] the 2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Italy and Serbia,[3] and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[4]
At club level, she played for Indesit (then called Stinol) and Dinamo Kazan before joining Dinamo Moscow in 2011.[5] [6]
She is married to Andrey Vetrov and due to her pregnancy she was out on maternity leave for most of 2012 and early 2013. On 1 November 2012 she gave birth to a boy named Nikolay.[7]