Nikita Andreyevich Lyamin

Nikita Andreyevich Lyamin
Nikita Ljamin (2014)
portrait
birthday	October 14, 1985
place of birth	Gorky , Soviet Union
size	2.03 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Middle block
societies
2007-2011 2011-2014	VK Dynamo Moscow Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod
successes
2008 - Russian Champion 2008 - Russian Cup Winner 2010 - Second Champions League 2014 - Second CEV Cup
beach volleyball
partner	2014 Ruslan Bykanow 2014–2016 Dmitri Barsuk 2017–2018 Vyacheslav Krassilnikow 2018–2019 Igor Velitschko since 2019 Taras Myskiv
World ranking	Position 47
successes
2014 - Third Open Xiamen 2016 - Olympic Fifth 2017 - Winner 3-Star Kisch 2017 - Winner 3-Star Den Haag 2017 - Fifth 5-Star Gstaad 2017 - Third World Cup 2018 - Second 4-Star Xiamen 2019 - Fifth 4-Star Jinjiang 2019 - fifth 4-star Warsaw 2019 - World Cup ninth
As of July 9, 2019

Nikita Andrejewitsch Lyamin ( Russian Никита Андреевич Лямин , English Nikita Andreyevich Liamin , born October 14, 1985 in Gorki ) is a Russian volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career indoor volleyball

Lyamin played for VK Dynamo Moscow from 2007 to 2011 . Here he became Russian champion and cup winner in 2008 and reached the final of the Champions League in 2010 . From 2011 to 2014 the middle blocker played in his homeland with Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod , with whom he reached the final of the CEV Cup in 2014 .

Career beach volleyball

Ljamin has been playing beach volleyball since 2014. After a few tournaments with Ruslan Bykanov , former Olympic participant Dmitri Barsuk became his partner at the end of the year . Barsuk / Ljamin landed on the podium at their third joint appearance at the FIVB World Tour in Xiamen . On the FIVB World Tour 2015/16 the two Russians had some top ten placements. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , they finished fifth.

In 2017 Lyamin formed a new duo with Vyacheslav Krassilnikov . Krassilnikow / Ljamin played very successfully on the FIVB World Tour and won the 3-star tournaments in Kisch and The Hague. They also achieved fifth place in the 5-star tournament in Gstaad. At the World Championships in Vienna Krassilnikow / Lyamin won the bronze medal. An outstanding result for Krassilnikow / Lyamin on the World Tour 2018 was a second place at the 4-star tournament in Xiamen . In August the two separated. Igor Velitschko was Lyamin's partner from October 2018 to April 2019 .

Ljamin has been playing with Taras Myskiw since May 2019 . After two fifth places in the 4-star tournaments in Jinjiang and Warsaw , the two Russians qualified for the World Cup in Hamburg , where they finished ninth.

Web links

• CEV profile 2014 (English)
• Nikita Andrejewitsch Lyamin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 8, 2019)