Yuri Cherednik

Yuri Cherednik
Personal information
Nickname Юрий Чередник
Nationality Russian
Born June 25, 1966
Chişinău, Romania
National team
 Soviet Union

Yuri Cherednik (Russian: Юрий Чередник, born 25 June 1966) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is 203 cm tall.

Biography

Cherednik was born at Chişinău and debuted in 1983 for Motorist Leningrad. In 1988 he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches.

Four years later he finished seventh with the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympic tournament. With the Soviet (or Unified Team) national team he won also a World Cup in 1991, the European Championships of 1991 and a bronze medal in the 1990 Championship.

Cherednik played in Italy from 1992 with Centromatic Prato (winning the title of MVP of Italy's A1 League that year). He subsequently played for Macerata, Bologna, Ferrara and others, before returning to Russia in 2006, where he concluded his playing career in 2007 with the Spartak St. Petersburg.

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