Pavel Pankov
After a good battle in the first set, it was practically a one-team show at the Baja California High Performance Center with Russia displaying a festival of serves and blocks to stop the Asian champions.
Victor Poletaev led Russia with 21 points, including three aces and one block, while Pavel Pankov had a tournament-high 8 aces en route to accumulate 12 points. Dmitry Volkov and Maxim Troynin contributed 11 and 10 points respectively with Troynin registering five blocks.
Javad Hekmati had 8 points as the scoring leader of Iran while Mohammadjavad Manaviznehad added seven.
Russia held a 12-5 advantage in the service aces category while out-blocking Iran 11-6. The winners landed 36 attacks to 28 by the losers.
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