Tags: Beach Volleyball Player, Volleyball Player.
Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born May 8 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player.He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004. Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing China after which they stopped playing together.The #21-ranked Latvian team achieved a major upset in the preliminary round beating the #1-ranked team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser (United States).