Full name Aleksandrs Samoilovs Role Beach Volleyball Player Nickname The Lion King Height 1.95 m | Hometown Riga, Latvia Weight 92 kg Name Aleksandrs Samoilovs Home town Riga | |
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Born April 6, 1985 (age 39)
Riga, Latvia ( 1985-04-06 ) Olympic medals Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Similar People Martins Plavins, Phil Dalhausser, Reinder Nummerdor, Alexander Horst, Jake Gibb | ||
Aleksandrs samoilovs beach volleyball 2017
Aleksandrs Samoilovs (born April 6, 1985 in Riga) is a beach volleyball player from Latvia.
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Samoilovs and team mate Mārtiņš Pļaviņš, with whom he partnered since 2004, represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The duo defeated the number 2 seed, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, in their first round game, in what announcers called "the biggest upset in Olympic beach volleyball history." The Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst.
After the Olympics Samoilovs and Pļaviņš stopped playing together.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he teamed with Ruslans Sorokins, where he again finished in 9th, reaching the round of 16, where they lost to Jonas Reckermann and Julius Brink of Germany.
He now partnering with Jānis Šmēdiņš.