Dmitry Nikolayevich Barsuk (; born 20 January 1980) is a Russian
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
player. He made an Olympic debut at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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,
China
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.
In August 2008 Barsuk and team mate
Igor Kolodinsky won their first
Swatch FIVB World Tour
The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (known between 2003 and 2012 as the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the worldwide professional beach volleyball tour for both men and women organized by the ' (Fédération ...
gold medal at the ''A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam'' in
Klagenfurt,
Austria
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Sponsors
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Swatch
References
Dmitri Barsoukat the
Beach Volleyball Database (archived)
External links
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1980 births
Living people
Russian beach volleyball players
Men's beach volleyball players
Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic beach volleyball players for Russia
People from Armavir, Russia
Beach volleyball players at the 2015 European Games
European Games silver medalists for Russia
European Games medalists in beach volleyball
Sportspeople from Krasnodar Krai
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