Yuri Mikhailovich Poyarkov

Yuri Poyarkov
Yuri Poyarkov 2012
portrait
Date of birth	February 10, 1937
place of birth	Kharkiv, Soviet Union
date of death	February 10, 2017
Place of death	Kharkiv, Ukraine
size	1.86 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
1955-1972	Burevestnik Kharkiv
National team
1960-1972	Soviet Union
successes
1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1967 1968 1969 1971 1972	World champion World champion European championship third Olympic champion Winner World Cup World championship third Soviet master European champion Olympic champion Third world cup European champion Olympic bronze
As of June 9, 2020

Yuri Mikhailovich Pojarkow ( Ukrainian Юрій Михайлович Поярков ; born February 10, 1937 in Kharkiv , † February 10, 2017 in Kharkiv) was a Soviet - Ukrainian volleyball player .

Poyarkov won gold with the Soviet national team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and in Mexico in 1968 and bronze in 1972 in Munich . He was also twice world champion ( 1960 and 1962 ) and achieved bronze in 1966 . He was European champion in 1967 and 1971 and third at the 1963 European championship . In addition, Poyarkov won the World Cup in 1965 and came third in 1969.

With Burevestnik Kharkiv Poyarkov won the Soviet championship in 1967.

In 2009 Yuri Pojarkow was inducted into the " Volleyball Hall of Fame ". He died in Kharkiv in 2017 on his 80th birthday.

Web links

• Juri Michailowitsch Pojarkow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hall of Fame (English)
• Volleyball world championships with line-up
• European volleyball championships with line-up

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Умер почётный гражданин Харькова Юрий Поярков. mediaport.ua, February 10, 2017, accessed June 9, 2020 (Ukrainian).