Victor Gresev
Date of birth | 31 March 1986 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 108 kg (238 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Victor Andreevitch Gresev (Russian: Виктор Андреевич Гресев) (born Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, 31 March 1986) is a Russian rugby union player who plays as a number eight.
He played for Slava Moscow (2006-2008), and for VVA Saracens (2009-2011), where he won the Russian Championship, in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He signed for London Wasps, where he stayed for 2011/12. Afterwards, he returned to Russia, joining Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk, in 2012, where he plays since then. He won twice the Russian Championship, in 2013 and 2015, and twice the Cup of Russia, in 2013 and 2015.
He has 97 caps for Russia, since 2006, with 19 tries scored, 95 points on aggregate. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in four games, one as substitute, and without scoring.[1]
He was also a regular player for Russia national rugby sevens team, being twice European Champion, in 2007 and 2009.
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Russian rugby union players
- Russia international rugby union players
- VVA Podmoskovye players
- Wasps RFC players
- Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
- Rugby union number eights
- Russian sportspeople stubs
- European rugby union biography stubs