This Volleyball Player Uses His Height To The Maximum | Vladislav Babkevich |

Vladislav Yurievich Babkevich (bel. Uladzislai yurievich Babkevich; b. May 10, 2001, Grodno) is a Belarusian volleyball player, diagonal of Zenit club (St. Petersburg) and the Belarusian national team.

At the younger school age, Vladislav Babkevich was engaged in tennis, and at the age of 11, at the invitation of his friend, he attended a volleyball training session and a year later finally chose this sport. He was educated in the Grodno OSDYUSHOR named after A. N. Sapieha by coach Vladimir Igorevich Astafiev[1]. In 2017, he received a call-up to the junior national team of Belarus and entered the Republican School of the Olympic Reserve in Minsk[2]. He competed at the European Youth Championships in the age categories U17 (2017), U18 (2018) and U20 (2018, 2020).

He played his debut match for the national team on May 26, 2019 in Minsk as part of the Euroleague Gold against the Czech Republic team. Having won the silver medals, Viktor Beksha's team got the right to compete in the Candidates Cup, where they took 3rd place. In the summer of the same year, Babkevich returned to the junior national team. In July, he was the captain and flag bearer of the Belarusian team at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku[3], and in August, he competed at the Junior World Championship in Tunisia, where he took 7th place in the list of the most productive players[4].

In June 2019, he signed a contract with Shakhtar Soligorsk[5]. He spent two seasons with the Miners and won all possible trophies on the national stage. In June 2021, he joined the Novourengoy Fakel[6]. As a member of the Belarusian national team in 2021, he played in the Euroleague Gold and at the European Championship, and also won the Platonov Memorial in St. Petersburg, and spent the last two tournaments in the role of a finisher.

In his debut season at Fakel, Babkevich became the most productive player in the Russian championship, scoring 554 points in 28 matches (19.8 on average per game) with 49% of attacks, and the best player of the championship in terms of usefulness (+283)[7]. Since the spring of 2023, he has played for Fakel mainly as a finishing player, and at the end of the year he moved on loan to Zenit St. Petersburg[8]. In the 2023/24 Russian Championship, he again became the most productive player - 656 points in 31 matches (21.2 on average per game).

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