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Oleg Markov
Markov with Richmond in March 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-05-08) 8 May 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Vitebsk, Belarus[1]
Original team(s) North Adelaide (SANFL)
Gepps Cross (NEMJFA)
Draft No. 50, 2015 AFL National Draft: Richmond
Debut Round 16, 2016, Richmond vs. Western Bulldogs, at Etihad Stadium
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Position(s) Half-back
Club information
Current club Richmond
Number 31
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2016– Richmond 17 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2019.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Oleg Markov (Belarusian: Олег Маркаў, born 8 May 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted to Richmond in the third round of the 2015 national draft and made his debut in round 16 of the 2016 season. In 2019 he won a VFL premiership while playing with the club's reserves side.

Early life and junior football

Markov was born in Vitebsk in the eastern European nation of Belarus.[1] He moved with his family to Adelaide at the age of ten months.[2] Markov has a mixed athletic background including in high jump. He was particularly talented at the sport, placing fifth one year at the Australian All Schools championships.[1] He began playing football for the first time at age ten, picking up the sport in the playground of his Adelaide school.[2] Markov played his first junior football for Gepps Cross before moving to the North Adelaide Under 13s side.[3]

In 2014 Markov played Under 18's football with the North Adelaide Football Club.[4] His season was limited however by two significant collar-bone injuries.[5]

Markov ultimately went undrafted in 2014 and instead returned to North Adelaide for the 2015 season.[4] He appeared in matches in the club's reserves and senior side.[4] He played for the South Australian side at 2015's National Under-18 championships, appearing in five matches. In the second round of the tournament he kicked five goals and recorded 16 disposals in an impressive performance against Vic Metro.[4]

AFL career

Markov was drafted by Richmond with the club's second selection and 50th selection overall in the 2015 draft.[4]

Markov made his AFL debut in round 16 of the 2016 season in a match against the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.[2] He recorded 18 disposals and nine marks for the match.[6] The following week he kicked his first career goal, in a round 17 victory against Essendon.[7] Markov finished the season having played eight consecutive matches to close out the season and holding averages of 15.4 disposals and 6.3 marks per game.[8] He also ranked ninth at the club for metres gained per match.[9]

After spending the first four weeks of the 2017 season in the reserves, Markov was called up to playing his first AFL match of the season in round 5 against Melbourne.[10] In round 6 he kicked an equal team high (and a career high) two goals in the club's loss to Adelaide.[8] He remained in the club's senior side for the following two weeks, but was dropped after a six disposal game in the round 8 loss to Fremantle.[11][12] Markov returned to senior football for a single match in round 15, being omitted form the side the following week.[13] He had another two match streak in rounds 22 and 23, but was dropped from the club's qualifying final team to play the following week.[8][14] Markov's year did not end there however, as he played three matches in Richmond's VFL finals run. The streak included playing in the losing grand final against Port Melbourne.[15] At season's end he had played seven senior matches.[8]

Markov with Richmond's VFL team in May 2018

In the weeks following the end of the 2017 season, Markov underwent shoulder surgery.[16] Though he would return to conditioning work quickly, the ongoing injury rehabilitation would limit his skills and contact training into the start of the 2018 calendar year.[17] As a result Markov was not in selection consideration in the first month of the AFL season, instead playing reserves football in the VFL. There he sustained a quad injury in late April and missed two weeks of football as a result.[18][19] After returning from that injury Makov played a further four matches at VFL level including in a new role as a hybrid defensive player, taking a one-on-one role against opponents' third-tall forward in addition to his normal half-back rebounding role.[20] In early-May though Markov sustained a match-ending knee injury during the first minute of a VFL match against Williamstown.[21] Scans would later reveal the injury to be a strained medial collateral ligament that would see him miss an expected four to six-weeks.[22] Markov made a return to training behind schedule in early-July and played VFL football again in the penultimate weekend of the month.[23][24] He sustained yet another knee injury in that match however, this time suffering a torn meniscus that required surgery to repair.[25] Markov made a return to running and conditioning in mid-August and to competitive football in Richmond's losing VFL qualifying final against Williamstown in September.[26][27] He recorded 15 disposals in the match and repeated the effort with a further 15 in the club's knock-out semi-final loss to the Essendon reserves side the following week.[27][28] Markov finished the season having played 10 matches with the club's reserves side in the VFL but failed to play a match at AFL level.[29][8]

After rebuilding some of his muscle mass lost during injury rehabilitation in the year prior, Markov spent the 2018/19 off-season developing his defensive skills in order to complement his rebounding abilities.[30] In February he missed some training due to a minor knee complaint but recovered in time to feature in each of the club's two official pre-season matches in March.[31][32][33] Despite showing improvements on his output from his last AFL match two years prior, he was unable to gain selection in round 1's season opener against Carlton.[34] An injury to fellow half-back Bachar Houli saw Markov called up to AFL the next week however, contributing eight and 20 disposals respectively over a two match stint at AFL level.[35][8] He would be dropped back to VFL level after those two matches, where he managed to play just one match before suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee.[36][37] While an initial diagnosis suggested a recovery time of six to eight weeks, a highly successful surgical operation allowed to Markov to return to VFL football within four.[38][39][40][41] He missed one further VFL match in early June due to illness before being suspended for another later that month.[42][43] In early July, AFL released GPS data identified Markov as the fastest player in the league that season, having achieved a top sprint speed of 37.4 kilometres per hour in round 2's loss to Collingwood.[44] He was shifted to a new role at that same time, playing as a small forward and kicking two goals in his first VFL match in the role.[45] Markov continued to play as a forward through the final five matches of the VFL home and away season, earning regular praise from head coach Craig McRae while kicking a total of eight goals.[46][47][48] He was quiet in a come-from-behind qualifying final win over the Essendon reserves in the first week of the finals, before kicking two last-quarter goals in a preliminary final victory over Port Melbourne a fortnight later.[49][50][51] Markov kicked one goal for the Richmond VFL side that defeated Williamstown the following week, as the club won its first reserves grade premiership since 1997.[52][53] He finished 2019 having played two matches at AFL level, along with winning a VFL premiership after 16 matches and 13 goals with the club's reserves side.[8][54]

Markov is contracted with Richmond until at least the end of the 2020 season.[55]

Playing style

Markov plays as a rebounding half back, utilising exceptional sprint speeds to set up offensive chains of possession.[56][57][58] In 2019 he spent significant periods trialing as a small forward in VFL matches with Richmond's reserves side.[59]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2019 season[8]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2016 Richmond 31 8 1 1 91 32 123 50 13 0.1 0.1 11.4 4.0 15.4 6.3 1.6
2017 Richmond 31 7 2 1 36 36 72 22 7 0.3 0.1 5.1 5.1 10.3 3.1 1.0
2018 Richmond 31 0 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
2019 Richmond 31 2 0 2 15 13 28 9 3 0.0 1.0 7.5 6.5 14.0 4.5 1.5
Career 17 3 4 142 81 223 81 23 0.2 0.2 8.4 4.8 13.1 4.8 1.4

Honours and achievements

VFL

Personal life

Oleg is the son of world champion pole vaulter Dmitri Markov and mother Valentina .[2]

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