Igor Kolodinsky is a beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

 player

Player (game)

A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....

 from Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, who represents his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, China

China

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In August, 2008 at the A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam presented by NOKIA in Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, Kolodinsky and team mate Dmitri Barsouk

Dmitri Barsouk

Dmitri Barsouk is a beach volleyball player from Russia, who represents his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China....

 won their first Swatch FIVB World Tour

Swatch FIVB World Tour 2008

The Swatch FIVB World Tour 2008 is an international beach volleyball competition.The tour consists of 15 tournaments with both genders and 9 separate gender tournaments....

 gold medal.

Kolodinsky currently (per August 2008) holds the records for the fastest serve in the Swatch FIVB World Tour

Swatch FIVB World Tour

The Swatch FIVB Beach Volley World Tour is an intercontinental beach volleyball tour....

 history. He served at 114.0 km/h at the Italian Open presented by Abruzzo

Swatch FIVB World Tour 2008

The Swatch FIVB World Tour 2008 is an international beach volleyball competition.The tour consists of 15 tournaments with both genders and 9 separate gender tournaments....

in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy.