Yelena Pavlova (born December 12, 1978) is a retired volleyball player from Kazakhstan, born in Tashkent, who captained the Women's National Team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan. There the team ended up in fifth place, and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Pavlova became "Best Scorer" at the event, alongside Puerto Rico's Karina Ocasio.[ citation needed ] In 2012-2013 she played with VC Zhetysu. [1]
Professional Football Club CSKA, commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or CSKA Moskva outside of Russia, or simply as CSKA, is a Russian professional football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 30,000-capacity VEB Arena. It plays in red and blue colours, with various plain and striped patterns having been used.
Anna Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian-born artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and represented Russia in other international competitions. In 2002 she won the Russian National Championships.
Alexander Alexandrovich Frolov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Daemyung Killer Whales of the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH). In an eight-year National Hockey League (NHL) career, he played with the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers. After Frolov's NHL career ended, he moved to the KHL with Avangard Omsk and CSKA Moscow.
Sergei Alexandrovich Belov was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team. He is considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time, and was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow.
Hockey Club SKA, often referred to as SKA Saint Petersburg and literally as the Sports Club of the Army, is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Saint Petersburg. They are members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The club never competed in a league final until the 2014–15 KHL season, where they defeated Ak Bars Kazan winning the Gagarin Cup. They won their second Gagarin Cup in 2017, defeating Metallurg Magnitogorsk. In 2012, with an average of 10,126 spectators, the SKA became the first Russian club ever to average a five-digit attendance.
Jon Robert "J.R." Holden is an American-Russian former professional basketball player and current basketball executive who is serving as an front office executive of the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously the director of player personal of the Brooklyn Nets. Holden was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 1.85 m (6'1") tall, he could play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, but he primarily played at point guard.
MBC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian basketball team from Moscow. It was active for 93 years as professional club, before being dissolved due to financial problems. The club had several successful years in the highest division in Russian basketball. In 2006, Dynamo won a continental trophy in the Eurocup.
Mustafa Karim Abdullah is an Iraqi football manager and former player. He played as striker, and was known for his ability to score with both feet.
Elie Mechantaf is a retired Lebanese professional basketball player.
The 2006 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship was the 7th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. Paykan of Iran won the tournament after beating Rahat CSKA of Kazakhstan.
Alexey Viktorovich Shved is a Russian professional basketball player who last played for Shanxi Loongs of the Chinese Basketball Association. Standing at 1.98 m, he plays at both the shooting guard and point guard positions.
Andrey Konstantinovich Vorontsevich is a Russian professional basketball player for the Russian team Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League. He plays at the power forward position.
Karina Ocasio Clemente is a volleyball player who plays for Puerto Rico national team.
The 2007 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship was the 8th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Vĩnh Yên, Vĩnh Phúc Province, Vietnam.
The 2007 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the fourteenth edition of the Asian Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). The tournament was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 5 to 13 September 2007.
The 2005 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the thirteenth edition of the Asian Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Chinese Volleyball Association (CVA). The tournament was held in Taicang, China from 1 to 8 September 2005.
Semyon Sergeyevich Antonov is a Russian professional basketball player for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. He also represents the senior Russian national team, winning bronze medals at European and Olympic level.
The 2004 VTV Cup Championship was the first edition of the tournament
Yelena Ezau is a Kazakhstani female volleyball player who currently plays for the Kazakhstani domestic club Altay VC in domestic league matches.
The Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, previously the AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament, is an annual continental club volleyball competition organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continental governing body. The competition was first contested in 1999 in Thailand. It was not held in 2003 and 2020 due to 2002–2004 SARS outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic respectively.