Dmytro Pashytskyy (; born 29 November 1987) is a Ukrainian professional

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player.

Personal life

Dmitry Pashitsky was born in

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, but spent a significant part of his life in

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(

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), where he began playing volleyball.

Career

Club

Pashytskyy started his professional volleyball career in

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in 2009. For the next season he joined another Estonian team, Selver Tallinn, with which he won the Estonian Championship, Estonian Cup and the

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in 2011. In 2011, Pashytskyy moved to

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to join one of the most decorated volleyball clubs in French volleyball history,

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. In 2013, he received an award for the ''Best Middle Blocker'' of the 2012–13 season. The 2014–15 season, Pashytskyy spent playing in the Polish

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team,

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. Не became the best blocker of the

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season by setting a new league record of 116 blocks that still remains unbroken. Also, he became the best scorer of the team, which is extremely unusual for the middle blocker position. In 2015, Pashytskyy joined Asseco Resovia, the 2015 Polish Champion, with which he won the

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silver medal and participated in the Final 4 of the

2015–16 CEV Champions League The 2015–16 CEV Champions League was the 57th edition of the highest level European volleyball club competition organised by the European Volleyball Confederation. Participating teams Format League round 28 teams have been drawn to 7 pool ...

. For the 2016–17 season he was loaned to

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. During the time spent playing in the Polish PlusLiga he received individual MVP award nine times. In 2017, Pashytskyy signed a contract with Kuzbass Kemerovo, with which he won the Russian Champion title in 2019 and the SuperCup the same season. He also made it to the semifinals of

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. During the 2019–20 season he won a bronze medal in the Russian Super League and reached the semifinals of the

2019–20 CEV Champions League The 2020–21 CEV Champions League was the 61st edition of the highest level European volleyball club competition organised by the European Volleyball Confederation. The tournament has been cancelled due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. Qualif ...

. On 15 June 2020, Pashytskyy joined

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, with which he became a silver medalist of the Russian Super League in the season of 2020–21. In the same season, he also made it to the finals of both, the Russian Cup and the

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. In the spring of 2022, Pashytskyy returned to

and helped the team reach the play-off stage of the Polish PlusLiga. For the

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season, Pashytskyy signed a contract with

ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle, is a professional men's volleyball club based in Kędzierzyn-Koźle in southern Poland, founded in 1994. They compete in the Polish PlusLiga. ZAKSA have won 9 domestic league titles, 10 national cups, and three CEV Cha ...

, with which he won the Polish Cup in 2023.

Honours

Club

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– with

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– with

2010–11 – with Selver Tallinn * Domestic ** 2010–11 Simple gold cup

Estonian Cup, with Selver Tallinn ** 2010–11 Gold medal with cup

Estonian Championship, with Selver Tallinn ** 2015–16 Silver medal with cup

Polish Championship, with Asseco Resovia ** 2018–19 Gold medal with cup

Russian Championship, with Kuzbass Kemerovo ** 2019–20 Simple gold cup

Russian SuperCup, with Kuzbass Kemerovo ** 2020–21 Silver medal with cup

Russian Championship, with Zenit Saint Petersburg ** 2022–23 Simple gold cup

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, with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle ** 2023–24 Simple gold cup

Polish SuperCup The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2024, the Polish Super Cup has been p ...

, with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle

Individual awards

* 2013: French Championship – Best middle blocker

Statistics

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Best blocker
(116 blocks)

References

External links

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Player profile
at ''PlusLiga.pl''
Player profile
at ''Volleybox.net'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Pashytskyy, Dmytro 1987 births Living people Naturalized citizens of Russia Volleyball players from Kyiv Ukrainian expatriates in Latvia Ukrainian men's volleyball players Russian men's volleyball players Ukrainian sportspeople in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia Expatriate volleyball players in Estonia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate volleyball players in France Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate volleyball players in Poland AS Cannes Volley-Ball players Cuprum Lubin players Resovia (volleyball) players Trefl Gdańsk players VC Zenit Saint Petersburg players ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle players Middle blockers 21st-century Russian sportsmen