Vladislav Korshunov (born 13 February 1983) is a Russian rugby union player. He plays as a hooker.

He plays for VVA-Podmoskovye Monino

VVA-Podmoskovye Monino

The VVA-Podmoskovje is a Russian rugby union team currently playing in the Professional Rugby League. The team plays at Gagarin Air Force Academy stadium in Monino, a garrison town just outside Moscow. VVA-Podmoskovye have strong links to the air force and also supply the bulk of Russia, with which...

, a professional Russian team.

Korshunov has 54 caps for Russia

Russia national rugby union team

The Russian National Rugby Union Team, is the national team representing Russia at the sport of rugby union.Rugby union in Russia is administered by the Rugby Union of Russia . The RUR is the official successor union of the Soviet Union and the combined CIS team which played in the early 1990s...

, since his debut, in 2002, with 5 tries scored, 25 points in aggregate. He is currently the captain of the Russia side and was a key player in the team that achieved the qualification for the 2011 Rugby World Cup

2011 Rugby World Cup

The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...

, in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, for the first time.

External links

• Vladislav Korshunov International Statistics