Kolosinska Wojtasik and Monika Brzostek placed ninth at the Rio 2016 Olympics as the Polish pair teamed to win the 2009 Under-21 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships before becoming their country’s first ever women’s team to place on a World Tour podium in August 2015 with a bronze medal on home sand in Olsztyn. It was Russia’s first ever men’s or women’s World Tour podium placement with the next coming in 2007 by Dmitri Barsouk and Igor Kolodinsky.Ī ninth place finisher with Kouchnerev at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games where the Russians split a pair of matches, Ermishin competed in 43 World Tour events with the Canary Island finish his best as he and Kouchnerev also placed fourth at a 2001 FIVB stop in Mallorca. Sunday also marks the 44th birthday of Imornefe Bowes, a German national team coach and husband of Olympic and world champion Laura Ludwig.Ī towering force at the net, the 2.08 m Ermishin teamed with Mikhail Kouchnerev to capture a bronze medal at the FIVB World Tour event on Jin the Canary Islands. Lausanne, Switzerland, During a seven-day period where 27 FIVB gold medals were awarded, including to Eduarda 'Duda' Lisboa and Agatha Bednarczuk of Brazil in Ostrava, the May 31-June 6 period also notes a 50th birthday this Thursday for Sergey Ermishin, one of the first Russians to reach an FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour beach volleyball podium.Įrmishin is one of three beach volleyball Olympians celebrating a birthday this week along with Poland’s Kinga Kolosinska Wojtasik on Tuesday (30) and American Rob Heidger on Wednesday (51). Eduarda 'Duda' Lisboa (left) and Agatha Bednarczuk of Brazil celebrate in Ostrava in 2019
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