Martin Lébl

Martin Lébl
January 9, 2011 in Piacenza
portrait
birthday	April 12, 1980
place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
size	2.01 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Middle block
societies
1993–1995 1995–1996 1996–1998 1998–2002 2002–2007 2007–2010 2010–2012	Olympia Prague AERO Odolena Voda VK Ústí nad Labem Noliko Maaseik Perugia Volley Lube Macerata M. Roma Volley
National team
1999 -	A national team
successes
1997 - Czech champion 1998 - Czech cup winner 2001 - Belgian champion 2001 - Belgian cup winner 2002 - Belgian champion 2002 - Belgian cup winner 2008 - Italian cup winner 2009 - Italian cup winner
beach volleyball
partner	1999–2000 Michal Palinek 2007 Michal Biza since 2010 Michael Placek
World ranking	Position 83
successes
2000 - Olympic participant
As of February 21, 2013

Martin Lébl (born April 12, 1980 in Prague ) is a Czech volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

Indoor volleyball

Lébl began his career in 1993 in the youth team of Olympia Prague . After he had played in the 1995/96 season in Odolena Voda , he moved to VK Ústí nad Labem and was there in his first season Czech champions. The cup victory followed a year later. Then he went to Belgium to Noliko Maaseik . In 1999 he was appointed to the Czech national team for the first time . With Maaseik he won the double in 2001 and 2002. With the national team, he just missed the bronze medal at the 2001 European Championships in his own country, but was the best attacker in the individual standings.

After these successes, the Italian club Perugia Volley signed him . In the summer of 2003 he was also honored as the best attacker in the world league . In 2007 Lébl came to Lube Macerata and won the Italian Cup twice in a row. In the 2008/09 season Macerata reached fourth place in the Champions League and Lébl received an award as the best attacker. In 2010 he finally switched to M. Roma Volley , where he ended his indoor career in 2012.

beach volleyball

Lébl played his first FIVB tournaments with Michal Palinek in 1999 and 2000 . The duo achieved a ninth place in Toronto and a fourth place in Marseille . At the 1999 World Cup , however, they did not go beyond 41st place in the same place. The 2000 European Championship was more successful , with the Czechs only failing shortly before the semi-finals against the Swiss brothers Martin and Paul Laciga and the Russians Karassew / Saifulin . Against the Laciga brothers, Lébl / Palinek lost the first game in the Sydney Olympic tournament , which ended for them in the second losing round against the Spaniards Bosma / Díez .

In 2007 Lébl returned to the international beach volleyball tournaments at the side of Michal Biza . At the World Championships in Gstaad , the duo was eliminated from the group as bottom of the group after the preliminary round despite an opening win against the later finalists Barsuk / Kolodinski from Russia. In 2010 Lébl played at the Grand Slam in Rome with Přemysl Kubala and at the Prague Open with Jaroslav Pavlas before forming a new duo with the native American Michael Placek .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Martin Lébl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at legavolley.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings
2. ↑ Men's CEV Indesit Champions League 2008/09. (No longer available online.) Inside-volley, April 6, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 21, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.