Aleksandar Vladimirov Nikolov (; born 30 November 2003) is a Bulgarian professional

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player who plays as an outside hitter for Cucine Lube Civitanova and the Bulgaria national team.

Personal life

Nikolov was born in

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, when his father

Vladimir Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology ...

was playing for the local

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. Aleksandar is one of the four children of Vladimir and his wife Maya, both of whom played volleyball professionally. He is the older brother of fellow volleyball player

Simeon Nikolov Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew, Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated in English as Shimon. In Greek, it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Sy ...

Honours

College

* Domestic ** 2022 Silver medal with cup

NCAA National Championship, with

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Club

* Domestic ** 2022–23 Silver medal with cup

Italian Championship, with Cucine Lube Civitanova

Youth national team

* 2021

FIVB U19 World Championship

Individual awards

* 2021: FIVB U19 World Championship – Best outside spiker * 2022: NCAA National Championship – All-tournament team * 2022: CEV U20 European Championship – Best outside spiker

References

External links

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Player profile
at ''LegaVolley.it''
Player profile
at ''Volleybox.net''
Long Beach State Beach 2022 roster – Alex Nikolov
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nikolov, Aleksandar 2003 births Living people Sportspeople from Tours, France Bulgarian men's volleyball players Bulgarian expatriate volleyball players in Italy Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball players Outside hitters 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate volleyball players in the United States