Mikhail Kuschnerjow

Mikhail Kuschnerjow
portrait
birthday	June 27, 1972
place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
size	1.92 m
partner	1996 Dmitri Areschkin 1997 Sergei Saifulin 1998 Dmitri Karassew 1999–2001 Sergei Yermishin 2002–2004 Sergei Saifulin 2005 Anton Kulikowski 2007 Vyacheslav Machortov
successes
2000 - Olympic participant
(As of July 30, 2011)

Mikhail Kuschnerjow ( Russian Михаил Кушнерёв , also transcribed Mikhail Kouchnerev ; born June 27, 1972 in Moscow ) is a former Russian beach volleyball player .

Career

Kuschnerjow completed his first international tournaments in 1996 with Dmitri Areschkin . The next year he played with Sergei Saifulin ; at the World Championships in Los Angeles , however, he competed with Ruschan Dajanow and finished in 33rd place. After a year at the side of Dmitri Karassew , he formed a new duo with Sergei Yermishin in 1999 , who reached 17th place at the World Cup in Marseille and ninth European Championship in Palma was. At the EM 2000 in Getxo , Kuschnerjow / Jermischin had to admit defeat to the Swiss duos Heyer / Egger and Kobel / Heuscher . Then they came to the round of 16 of the Olympic tournament in Sydney against the Canadians Child / Heese . They reached the same round at the 2001 World Cup when they lost again to a Swiss duo, the brothers Martin and Paul Laciga . The European Championships in Jesolo she also finished in ninth place.

In 2002 Kuschnerjow returned to his former partner Saifulin, but could not prevent the early end at the EM in Basel . After the reunited duo had missed both the World and European Championships in the following year, it was eliminated in Timmendorfer Strand in 2004 without winning a set after the preliminary round. At the side of Anton Kulikowski Kuschnerjow was just as unsuccessful in 2005 as after his return in 2007 with Vyacheslav Machortov .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Michail Kuschnerjow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )