Mārtiņš Pļaviņš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Latvian beach volleyball player
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Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
About Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
- Martinš Plavinš (born 8 May 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player. He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004.
- Plavinš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together.At the 2008 Olympics, the #21-ranked Latvian team achieved a major upset in the preliminary round, beating the #1-ranked team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser (United States).
- Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst. After the 2008 Olympics, he began playing together with Janis Šmedinš.
- At the 2010 European Beach Volleyball Championships, Plavinš and Šmedinš won the bronze medal.
- They followed this up by winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
- They lost to Rego and Cerutti of Brazil in the semi-final but beat Nummerdor and Schuil of the Netherlands in the bronze medal match.
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