Mārtiņš Pļaviņš

Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born 8 May 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.

Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
Personal information
Full name	Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
Born	(1985-05-08) 8 May 1985 Riga, Latvia
Hometown	Riga, Latvia
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Teammate Aleksandrs Solovejs
Previous teammates
Years Teammate Tours (points) 2004–2008 2008–2012 2013 2013- Aleksandrs Samoilovs Jānis Šmēdiņš Jānis Pēda Hermans Egleskalns 35 (2210)
Honours Men's beach volleyball Representing  Latvia Olympic Games 2012 London Team European Championships 2010 Berlin Team European Games 2015 Baku Team

He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004.[1] Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together.[2]

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).[3] 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 Jānis Šmēdiņš. At the 2010 European Beach Volleyball Championships, Pļaviņš and Šmēdiņš won the bronze medal. They followed this up by winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4] 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.[5]