Yevgeniya Artamonova

Yevgeniya Artamonova
Personal information
Born	(1975-07-17) 17 July 1975 (age 41)  Soviet Union Sverdlovsk
National team
Soviet Union  CIS  Russia
Honours Women's Volleyball FIVB World Cup Representing  Soviet Union 1991 Japan Team Competition Representing  Russia 1999 Japan Team Competition Olympic Games Representing the  Unified Team 1992 Barcelona Team Competition Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team Competition 2004 Athens Team Competition FIVB World Championship 1994 Brazil Team Competition 1998 Japan Team Competition 2002 Germany Team Competition FIVB World Grand Prix 1997 Kobe Team Competition 1999 Yuxi Team Competition 2002 Hong Kong Team Competition 1998 Hong Kong Team Competition 2000 Manila Team Competition 2003 Andria Team Competition 1993 Shanghai Team Competition 1996 Shanghai Team Competition 2001 Macau Team Competition European Championship 1993 Brno-Zlin Team Competition 1997 Brno Team Competition 1999 Rome Team Competition 2001 Sofia-Varna Team Competition

Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (Russian: Евге́ния Ви́кторовна Э́стес), née Artamonova (Артамонова) (born 17 July 1975 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian female volleyball player, who was a member of the national team and one of only two volleyball players (along with Sergey Tetyukhin) that competed consecutively in six Olympic Games and took the silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

She also won the Most Beautiful Women Volleyball Player Award, which was held on the occasion of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 1993 and sponsored by Japanese Monthly Volleyball Magazine. As a member of TOYOBO, she won the first runner-up of "Miss V-League".

Aru-chan (Evguenia's nickname in Japan) On the court, she rarely shows her feelings, which made Japanese media nickname her “Ice doll”.

During the Russia-Japan game of the World Grand Prix 1995 she fell down because of a knee injury.The knee was operated unsuccessfully on the previous year.

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