The Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner is a volleyball competition for men’s national teams, organized by the Hubert Wagner foundation and held in Poland every year.
The Competitions have been created in 2003 in memory of the best volleyball coach in Poland, Hubert Jerzy Wagner, who won the 1974 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championship, the Olympic gold in 1976 and silver medals in the Men’s European Volleyball Championship in 1975 and 1983 for the Polish team. Poland team won Six Gold in history while Russia and The Netherlands won two respectively.
This year, the competition will be held from 11th to 13th August in Krakow. Four teams will participate and they are: Canada, France, Poland and Russia.
The composition of the Russian national team at the Wagner Memorial 2017:
Setters: Alexander Butko, Sergey Grankin.
Opposite spikers: Maxim Mikhailov , Maxim Zhigalov.
Middle Blockers: Artem Volvich, Andrey Aschev, Ilyas Kurkaev, Alexey Ostapenko.
Outside spikers: Yuriy Berezhko, Alexander Markin, Dmitry Volkov, Egor Kliuka, Yegor Feoktistov (Ural).
Liberos: Valentin Golubev, Roman Martynzuk.
