Jānis Pēda

Jānis Pēda
Jānis Pēda in 2017
portrait
birthday	May 18, 1985
place of birth	Riga, Soviet Union
size	1.98 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Outside and diagonal
societies
2002–2004 2004–2005 2005–2008 2008–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 2013–	Lase-R Riga Samia Schio Carilo Loreto Materdomini Castellana Grotte Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo Carilo Loreto Hypo Tirol volleyball team Innsbruck
National team
since 2003	A national team
successes
2010 - Italian champion 2010 - CEV Cup winner 2011 - Italian cup winner 2014 - Austrian champion
beach volleyball
partner	2003 Artis Caics 2013 Mārtiņš Pļaviņš 2014 Toms Šmēdiņš
As of July 2, 2014

Jānis Pēda (born May 18, 1985 in Riga ) is a Latvian volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

Pēda started his indoor career in 2002 at Lase-R Riga. In 2003 he was a beach volleyball player with Artis Caics fifth at the Junior World Championship in Saint-Quay-Portrieux . In the same year he made his debut in the Latvian national team . In 2004 he moved to the Italian second division team Samia Schio . After one season, the outside attacker, who can also play in the diagonal position, went to league competitor Carilo Loreto . In 2008/09 he was active at Materdomini Castellana Grotte before he was signed by the first division club Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo . In his first season in Cuneo, Pēda won the Italian championship and the CEV Cup with the club . In 2011 he won the national cup. Then Pēda returned to Loreto. In 2013 he formed a new beach duo with Mārtiņš Pļaviņš , who had won the Olympic bronze medal the previous year. Pļaviņš / Pēda played five Grand Slams after the Fuzhou Open and achieved a 17th place in Shanghai as their best result . They also finished 17th at the 2013 World Cup in Stare Jabłonki . In the hall, Pēda played for Hypo Tirol volleyball team Innsbruck in 2013/14 and was Austrian champion. At Beach, Pēda played with Toms Šmēdiņš in 2014 . At the EM in Quartu Sant'Elena, Šmēdiņš / Pēda were eliminated without a win after the preliminary round.

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Profile at Legavolley (Italian)
• Profile at Hypotirol Innsbruck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ siatkówka Plażowa: Janis Peda Nowym partnerem Plavinsa. (No longer available online.) Siatkówka w obiektywie, May 1, 2013, archived from the original on May 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 20, 2013 (Polish). 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.