Pavlov Nikolay Vladimirovich is a Russian volleyball player, an opposite hitter who played for the Nizhny Novgorod club Gubernia and the Russian national team. At the end of 2013, Nizhny Novgorod sports journalists named him the best athlete of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[3]
Sporting achievements
As a member of the Russian national team, Pavlov became a European champion and a World League winner, and was named the most valuable player of the latter tournament.[3] In June 2014, in a fourth-round World League match against the Serbian national team held in Surgut, Pavlov was the top scorer of the match for the Russian team, with 16 points; Russia won 3–0 (37–35, 25–15, 25–16).
Recognition
In December 2013, the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Sport (a supplement to Nizhegorodskaya Pravda) held its traditional poll of regional media representatives on the results of the sports year for the 13th time. Forty-four journalists took part in the vote, and 40 names were put forward. Pavlov received 73 points (16 first places, 10 second places, 5 third places), ahead of relay world champion Tatyana Firova (57 points) and basketball player Semyon Antonov (17 points).[3]
On December 31, 2013, Pavlov reached the semifinal of the All-Russian sports program Golden Pedestal on the Russia 2 channel, in which viewers chose the country's best athlete of the year in a live broadcast, but he did not make the top three.[2]
Sources
- checko.ru — MONTAZHRESURS LLC — Nizhny Novgorod — INN 5259034920 — Director N. V. Pavlov
- Vremya N — Nizhny Novgorod volleyball player Pavlov becomes Golden Pedestal laureate
- Newsroom24 — Two volleyball players from Nizhny Novgorod's "Gubernia" helped the Russian national team beat Serbia in a World League match — Sports