Denis Kaliberda

Denis Kaliberda
2014 at Copra Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	June 24, 1990
place of birth	Poltava, USSR
size	1.95 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
1999–2004 2004–2009 2009–2012 2012–2013 2013–2014 2014–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2018 since 2018	SCC Berlin VC Olympia Berlin Generali Haching Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia Copra Piacenza Jastrzębski Węgiel Sir Safety Perugia Cucine Lube Civitanova Ziraat Bankası Ankara Azimut Modena
National team
98 times 163 times	Youth / junior national team A national team
successes
2007 2007 2008 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2017 2017	5th place European youth championship 10th place youth world championship vice European champion Juniors DVV cup winner German vice champion World Cup eighth DVV cup winner German vice champion World League fifth Olympic fifth World league seventh European championship sixth Italian cup winner World Cup bronze European Games gold Italian Cup winners Italian champions
As of April 11, 2019

Denis Kaliberda ( Ukrainian Денис Каліберда Denys Kaliberda ; born June 24, 1990 in Poltava , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a German volleyball player .

Career

society

In 1999 Denis Kaliberda started playing volleyball at SCC Berlin . At the end of 2004, the native of Ukraine moved to VC Olympia Berlin , where he was part of the regional league team before he was used in the VCO's first division team in the 2006/07 season . During his time in Berlin, Kaliberda won three German youth championships.

In 2009, the junior international moved to Bavaria. With Generali Haching , he immediately won the German Cup in his first season . In the finals of the Bundesliga , Haching succeeded in bringing the reigning champions VfB Friedrichshafen the first national home defeat after more than three years, but the championship was won by the team from Lake Constance.

In January 2010, the outside attacker competed in the All-Star Game for Team South and was the youngest participant in the service competition.

In 2011 Kaliberda and Generali Haching won the DVV Cup for the second time in a row by beating the reigning German champions Friedrichshafen 3-2 . In 2012, Kaliberda and Haching lost 2: 3 wins in the playoff final to the new champion Berlin Recycling Volleys . Then he went to Italy to Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia . In 2013 Kaliberda moved to league competitor Copra Piacenza , with whom he won the Italian Cup in 2014. Then he went to the Polish top club Jastrzębski Węgiel . In 2016 he moved back to Italy to Sir Safety Perugia and in 2016 to league competitor Cucine Lube Civitanova , where he became Italian champion and cup winner in 2017. In the 2017/18 season, Kaliberda served in Turkey for Ziraat Bankası Ankara , and from 2018 he will play again in Italy for Azimut Modena .

National team

As captain of the U-19 national team, he reached fifth place at the 2007 European Youth Championship and tenth place at the World Cup that same year. A year later he became vice European champion with the junior national team in Brno .

In the 2010 World League , the German national team finished ninth with Kaliberda, and at the subsequent World Cup in Italy, the team reached eighth place, the best placement of a German team since 1974.

At the Olympic Games in London , he reached fifth place with the national team. With the national team he won the bronze medal at the World Cup in Poland and the gold medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku .

Others

His father Wiktor Kaliberda is also a volleyball player and played for the Ukrainian national team . Today he still plays sporadically for the Berlin VV in the Berlin League.

Web links

• Denis Kaliberda in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at DVV
• Profile at legavolley.it
• Ranking lists: 2009 ( Memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 759 kB) - 2010 ( Memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 546 kB) - 2012 ( Memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 388 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North against South. (No longer available online.) Netzinos, January 25, 2010, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved September 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ European Games: A Duo for Germany & Perugia - The Special Relationship of Fromm & Kaliberda www.volleyball-verband.de, accessed on July 24, 2015
3. ^ German Volleyball Association - Denys Kaliberda. Retrieved September 10, 2018 . 
4. ^ Nils Kersten: Ascent of a ball boy. Denis Kaliberda (16) has established himself at the VC Olympia. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 10, 2007, accessed September 11, 2015 .