Yury Berezhko | |
Fullname: | Yury Viktorovich Berezhko |
Nationality: | Russian |
Birth Date: | 27 January 1984 |
Birth Place: | Komsomolsk-on-Amur, USSR |
Height: | 1.98 m |
Weight: | 90 kg |
Spike: | 346 cm |
Block: | 338 cm |
Position: | Outside hitter |
Currentclub: | VC Lokomotiv Novosibirsk |
Currentnumber: | 9 |
Years: | 2001–2004 2001–2010 2010–2011 2011–2013 2013–2014 2014–2020 2021 2021–2022 2022– |
Teams: | Yaroslavich Yaroslavl Dinamo Moscow Casa Modena Zenit Kazan Dinamo Krasnodar Dinamo Moscow Galatasaray Zenit Kazan Lokomotiv Novosibirsk |
Nationalyears: | 2005–2018 |
Updated: | 22 January 2021 |
Yury Viktorovich Berezhko (ru|Юрий Викторович Бережко; born 27 January 1984) is a Russian volleyball player. He currently plays outside hitter for VC Zenit-Kazan.
He is an Olympic gold medalist (2012), bronze medalist (2008), World Cup silver medalist and a silver medalist at the 2007 European Championship in Moscow, Russia, playing with the men's national team. Berezhko won Best server Award in 2009 European Championship. He won the award of Best Spiker in that occasion. In January, 2016 Yury Berezhko resumed performances for the Russian national team, helping the Russians qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.