Taras Jurjewitsch Chtei

Taras Jurjewitsch Chtei
portrait
Date of birth	May 22, 1982
place of birth	Sokal-Sabuschje, Ukrainian SSR
size	2.05 m
position	Universal
societies
1998–2003 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 since 2008	MGTU Moscow VK Dynamo Moscow Neftjanik Yaroslavl VK Iskra Odinzowo VK Lokomotiv-Belogorje
National team
until 2001 since 2002	Junior national team A national team
successes
1999 1999 2000 2001 2001 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010 2002 2002 2003 2004 2004 2005 2005 2009 2010 2011 2011 2012	Junior World Champion Junior European Champion European Junior Champion Youth World Championship runner- Russian master Russian runner-up World League winner vice-champion Russian Cup finalist Russian Cup finalist Olympic Bronze Europe League Victors European runner-up winner CEV Cup World League finalist World League winner Winner World Cup Olympic champion
As of August 22, 2012

Taras Jurjewitsch Chtei ( Russian Тарас Юрьевич Хтей , English transcription: Taras Yurevich Khtey ; born May 22, 1982 in Sokal- Sabuschje, Lviv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian volleyball player .

Career

Taras Chtei 2012

Chtei got into volleyball at his hometown sports school. In 1998 he went to MGTU Moscow . With the Russian juniors he was world and European champion in 1999. In the next two years the European title and the vice world championship for youth followed. In 2001 he won the Russian championship with the MGTU team. A year later, the universal player wanted to move to VK Dynamo Moscow after the runner-up in the league within the capital , but the association forbade this with the reference to an invalid contract. On June 29, 2002, Chtei made his debut in the senior national team at the World League game against Cuba , which eventually won the competition. At the World Cup in Argentina , the Russians reached the final. In 2003 Chtei's move to Dynamo worked. This year he was in the Russian Cup final. He missed the international tournaments in the summer of 2003 because of his military service . In 2004 he finished second in both national competitions. In Athens, Chtei experienced his first Olympic tournament in 2004 and won the bronze medal with Russia. In 2005 the national team won the European league and lost to hosts Italy in the final of the European championship . Then Chtei moved to Neftjanik Yaroslavl for one season before he was committed in 2006 by VK Iskra Odintsovo . In 2008 he came to his current club VK Lokomotiv-Belogorje , with whom he won the CEV Cup the following season . In 2011 he won the world league with Russia, which had lost the final in 2010 . In addition, the national team was successful at the World Cup . In 2012 Chtei won the gold medal at the London Olympics .

Web links

• Personal website (Russian)
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Taras Jurjewitsch Chtei in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )