Yury Vasilevich Starunsky (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Старунский, April 17, 1945 – December 24, 2010) was a Soviet volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
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| Full name | Yury Vasilevich Starunsky | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Юрий Васильевич Старунский | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Soviet | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 11, 1945 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | December 24, 2010 (aged 65) Russia | |||||||||||||||||
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In 1972, Starunsky was part of the Soviet team that won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches.
Four years later, Starunsky won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1976 Olympic tournament. He played all five matches.
External links
edit- Yuri Starunsky at Olympics.com
- Yuri Starunsky at Olympedia
- Yury Starunsky at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Yuri Starunsky's obituary, lifesports.ru at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-01-14) (in Russian)
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