Piotr Cantor

Piotr Cantor
portrait
birthday	May 3, 1992
place of birth	Sosnowiec, Poland
size	1.98 m
partner	since 2009 Bartosz Łosiak
World ranking	Position 22
successes
2009 - European Champion U18 2010 - European Champion U20 2010 - World Champion U19 2011 - European Champion U20 2011 - Vice World Champion U21 2012 - Vice European Champion U23 2012 - World Champion U21 2013 - World Champion U23 2013 - European Champion U22 2014 - third FIVB Grand Slam Sao Paulo 2015 - second FIVB Major Stavanger 2016 - Winner FIVB Grand Slam Rio de Janeiro 2016 - Third FIVB Grand Slam Moscow 2016 - Olympic Participant 2017 - Second FIVB 5-Star Gstaad 2017 - Fifth World Championship 2017 - Fourth FIVB Season Final Hamburg
(As of August 21, 2020)

Piotr Kantor (born May 3, 1992 in Sosnowiec ) is a Polish beach volleyball player . From 2009 to 2013 he was three times world champion and four times European champion in different age groups.

Career

In 2009 Kantor played his first FIVB World Tour tournament with Bartosz Łosiak at the Mysłowice Open . In Espinho , Kantor / Łosiak won the U18 European Championship. In the same year they reached ninth place at the U19 World Cup in Alanya . In 2010 they also won the U20 European Championship in Catania . A little later they won their next title at the U19 World Cup in Porto . They then took part in a Grand Slam for the first time in Stare Jabłonki . At the U21 World Cup 2011 in Alanya Kantor competed with Damian Wojtasik and came in 29th place. Then Kantor and Łosiak played together again and decided the U20 European Championship in Tel Aviv-Jaffa for themselves. At the U21 World Cup in Halifax they only lost in the final. In 2012 they came third at the Continental Cup in Alanya. They finished the U23 European Championship in Assen in second place. Then Kantor / Łosiak reached the top ten of a World Tour tournament for the first time in ninth place in the Grand Slam of Stare Jabłonki. In Halifax they became U21 world champions. In 2013 they won their sixth title as a junior player at the U23 World Cup in Mysłowice. They finished the Grand Slam in The Hague in ninth place. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki they reached the knockout phase as group winners, but were then eliminated in the first duel against the Canadians Saxton / Schalk . After the World Cup, they were ninth each in the Grand Slams in Gstaad and Berlin . At the U22 European Championship in Varna they won their next European title. At the end of the year they finished fifth at the Grand Slam in São Paulo .

Kantor / Łosiak have been among the world's best in beach volleyball since 2014. The Poles achieved numerous top ten results on the FIVB World Tour. Outstanding here were a third place in the Grand Slam in São Paulo in 2014 , a second place in 2015 in the Major in Stavanger , in 2016 the victory in the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro and a third place in the Grand Slam in Moscow as well as a second place in 2017 in the 5- Star tournament in Gstaad . Added to this is participation in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and fifth place at the Beach Volleyball World Championship 2017 in Vienna .

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Piotr Kantor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of August 21, 2020)
2. ↑ European pairs shine at inaugural U23 World Championships. (No longer available online.) CEV June 9, 2013, archived from the original on June 7, 2014 ; accessed on June 15, 2013 . 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.