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Aleksandrs Samoilovs (born April 6, 1985) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.
Samoilovs and teammate Mārtiņš Pļaviņš, with whom he partnered since 2004, represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The duo defeated the number 2 seed, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, in their first-round game, in what announcers called "the biggest upset in Olympic beach volleyball history". The Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst.
After the Olympics, Samoilovs and Pļaviņš stopped playing together.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he teamed with Ruslans Sorokins, where he again finished in 9th, reaching the round of 16, where they lost to Jonas Reckermann and Julius Brink of Germany.
He now partnering with Jānis Šmēdiņš.
Best achievements
1st place World Tour 2013 and 2014
1st place U-21 World championship
1st place U-23 European championship
1st place U-20 European championship
two times Latvian champion
5th place World tour in Italy in 2007
5th place World tour in Spain in 2008
9th place Olympic Games 2008
9th place Olympic Games 2012
1st place European championship 2015
References
External links
Aleksandrs Samoilovs at the Beach Volleyball Database
Aleksandrs Samoilovs at FIVB.com
Aleksandrs Samoilovs at Olympedia (archive)
Aleksandrs Samoilovs at Olympics.com Aleksandrs Samoilovs at Olympic.org (archived)
Aleksandrs Samoilovs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)