Olympic volleyball champion Grankin resumed his career at 40

Olympic volleyball champion Sergei Grankin resumed a sports career at the age of 40, athlete agent Vladimir Kastornov said.

Grankin will play for the Portuguese Sporting. In the 2024/25 season, Grankin served as head coach Yaroslavich. The last club, for which Grankin spoke, was the New Urengoi “Torch”. Earlier, the binder played for Berlin, Moscow Dynamo, Belogorye.

– Grankin resumes the career of the player and will spend the next season in the Portuguese Sporting. The choice of “Sporting” is primarily due to the participation of the club in the Champions League, in which the team will start from the group stage, as well as the highest level of organization of the club.

We are sure that this is a great opportunity for Sergey to return to the international competitive track, according to which a player of this level, of course, was bored. We also want to thank the Sporting management for the operational solution of all the necessary formalities for the transition of Sergey and the execution of all documents for his family. We are sure that this cooperation will be as useful as possible for both sides. And for Russian fans, this is an additional opportunity and incentive to monitor our player in the world volleyball arena in the strongest club tournament, ”Kastornov wrote on a social network.

As part of the Russian national team, Grankin won the Olympic tournament (2012), two European championships (2013, 2017), twice won the world league (2011, 2013). Also in his asset of the bronze of the Olympiad -2008.