Viljar Loor

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Viljar Loor (born October 1, 1953 in Tartu ; † March 22, 2011 ) was a Soviet volleyball player of Estonian origin.

Career

Viljar Loor started playing volleyball when he was ten and was coached by his father Valdur Loor , who himself was a volleyball player and referee. In 1970 Loor made his debut in the Estonian SSR Championship and won the Soviet Junior Championship with the Estonian SSR junior team. In 1971 he was named captain of the Soviet junior national team, with which he was able to win the European championship in 1971 and 1973. After becoming champion of the Estonian SSR with Kalev Tallinn in 1974 , he moved to CSKA Moscow in 1975 , with whom he was seven times (1975, 1976 and 1979 to 1983) Soviet champion, 1982 Soviet cup winner, and 1975, 1977, 1982 and 1983 winner of the European Cup of national champions could be. In 1983 Loor returned to Kalev Tallinn, where he played until 1985. He ended his career in 1986 with the Tallinn Bus Drivers Association (Tallinna Autobussikoondise meeskond) , with which he was again champion of the Estonian SSR in 1985 and 1986. After the end of his active career, Loor, who graduated from the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in 1977 with a degree in economics , worked from 1987 to 1992 as a deputy director at Agro Tartu , a state farm. After Estonia broke away from the Soviet Union, Loor was the owner of a construction company that he had founded with his brother Heldur Loor, who had also previously been a volleyball player . From 2008 until his death on March 22, 2011, he headed the Estonian Olympic Association.

National team

From 1975 to 1984 Loor was a member of the Soviet national volleyball team . With this he won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . In 1978 and 1982 he became world champion . In 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981 and 1983 Loor was European champion with the Soviet team . In 1977 and 1981 he won the Volleyball World Cup with the team .

literature

  • Tiit Lääne: Eesti olümpiamedalivõitjad 1912–2006. Tallinn 2006, ISBN 9949-427-25-8 , p. 34 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 255
  2. ↑ http://www.postimees.ee/?id=24134
  3. ↑ http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06226108
personal data
SURNAME Loor, Viljar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2011