Maxim Mikhaylov

Maxim Mikhaylov is a Russian professional volleyball player, born on 19 March 1988, who plays for the Russia men's national team and for the Russian club VC Zenit Kazan. He started playing in the Leningrad region under Valery Besprozvannykh and from 2003 to 2010 was an outside striker for Yaroslavich Yaroslavl before joining Zenit Kazan in 2010. With Russia he won bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, gold at the World Cup in 2011 and at the 2012 Olympics in London, where he was named best spiker and best scorer, the 2013 and 2017 European Championships, and silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. With Zenit he won the CEV Champions League in 2011-12 and in four straight seasons from 2014-15 to 2017-18, and was most valuable player of the 2016-17 final.