Viljar Loor
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| Nationality | Estonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 1, 1953 Tartu, Estonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 22, 2011 (aged 57) Tallinn, Estonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Viljar Loor (1 October 1953 – 22 March 2011) was the most successful Estonian volleyball player. In the 1980 Summer Olympics he was part of the gold winning Soviet Union volleyball team. He played all five matches.
Loor died on 22 March 2011.
His coaches were Ülo Palk, Raimund Pundi, Ivan Dratšov, in Soviet Union team Viacheslav Platonov and Yuri Chesnokov.[1]
Achievements[]
- Olympic winner: 1980
- World Champion: 1978, 1982
- European Champion: 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983
- World Cup winner: 1977, 1981
- European Youth Champion: 1971, 1973
- 4 × European Club Champions Cup winner
- 8 × Soviet Champion[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Teisipäeval suri ootamatult olümpiavõitja Viljar Loor (in Estonian)
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Categories:
- 1953 births
- 2011 deaths
- Sportspeople from Tartu
- Estonian men's volleyball players
- Soviet men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Estonian sportspeople stubs
- European volleyball biography stubs