Full name Martins Plavins Name Martins Plavins Height 1.9 m Spouse Liene Plavins | Hometown Riga, Latvia Role Beach Volleyball Player Weight 91 kg | |
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Born May 8, 1985 (age 38)
Riga, Latvia ( 1985-05-08 ) Siblings Ieva Plavins, Elina Plavins Olympic medals Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men\'s tournament Similar People Janis Smedins, Aleksandrs Samoilovs, Phil Dalhausser, Reinder Nummerdor, Emanuel Rego | ||
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Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born May 8, 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.
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- Martins plavins janis plavinch beach volleyball players from latvia
- Mrti Pavi un Hermans Egleskalns uzskui trenius sezonai
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He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004. Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together.
At the 2008 Olympics, the #21-ranked Latvian team achieved a major upset in the preliminary round, beating the #1-ranked team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser (United States). Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst.
After the 2008 Olympics, he began playing together with Jānis Šmēdiņš. At the 2010 European Beach Volleyball Championships, Pļaviņš and Šmēdiņš won the bronze medal. They followed this up by winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They lost to Rego and Cerutti of Brazil in the semi-final but beat Nummerdor and Schuil of the Netherlands in the bronze medal match.
Mārtiņš Pļaviņš un Hermans Egleskalns uzsākuši treniņus sezonai!
