page_title: Sport in Russia
section_title: Volleyball
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Russia / Volleyball
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Photo réalisée lors du match de ligue des champions de volley entre le Paris Volley et le Lokomotiv Belgorod. Victoire de Belgorod 3-0 8:TETYUKHIN Sergey
context_page_description: The most popular sport in Russia is football. According to Yandex search analysis results rating of the most popular sports among Russians: "Football topped the list of the most popular sports in Russia" with 5 to 10 million requests. Ice hockey came in second with handball, basketball, futsal, boxing, auto racing, volleyball, athletics, tennis and chess rounding out the top ten rankings. Other popular sports include bandy, biathlon, figure skating, weightlifting, gymnastics, wrestling, martial arts, rugby union, and skiing.
  The Soviet Union competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Soviet and later Russian athletes never finished below fourth place in the number of gold and total medals collected at the Summer Olympics in which they competed. Russia has the most medals stripped for doping violations, the most of any country, four times the number of the runner-up, and nearly a third of the global total. The Russian team was partially banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.
context_section_description: Gold medals (2002, 2011, 2013),5 silver medals (1993, 1998, 2000, 2007, 2010), 6 bronze medals (1997, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009)
  The Russian women's national volleyball team is ranked fifth in the FIVB World Rankings.
  Record for achievements of the Russian women's volleyball team:
  2 Olympic silver medals (2000 and 2004)
  2 FIVB World Championships gold medals (2006 and 2010)
  1 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup gold medal (1997), 1 silver medal (2001), and 1 bronze medal (1993)
  The Russian volleyball junior team continue to excel, in the FIVB men ranking for junior and youth, Russia is placed first the men.
caption: Sergey Tetyukhin, the most successful veteran professional player, celebrated his 40th birthday in 2015, and is still a member of Russia's National team.
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