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Soviet volleyball player (born 1940)
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Full name | Nelli Mikhaylovna Abramova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1940-08-18) 18 August 1940 (age 83) Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nelli Mikhaylovna Abramova (Russian: ΠΠ΅ΜΠ»Π»ΠΈ ΠΠΈΡ Π°ΜΠΉΠ»ΠΎΠ²Π½Π° ΠΠ±ΡΠ°ΜΠΌΠΎΠ²Π°) (born 18 August 1940, in Chelyabinsk) is: a Jewish former Soviet competitive volleyball player. She is an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964) and European champion (in 1967).
Careerβ»
Abramova played from 1956 until 1975, for clubs in the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, winning the "USSR Cup in 1974." She played for the Soviet Union national team from 1964ββto 1967 becoming an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964), Universiade champion (in 1965) and European champion (in 1967).
Clubsβ»
Trud Chelyabinsk (1956β1962)
Spartak Irkutsk (1962β1966)
Burevestnik Odessa / Medin Odessa (1966β1975)
Honours and awardsβ»
- Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1971)
- National team
- 1964 Olympic Games β Silver medal
- 1965 Summer Universiade β Gold medal
- 1967 European Championship β Gold medal
- Clubs
- 1974 USSR Cup (champion with Medin Odessa)
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ Bob Wechsler, Day by, Day in Jewish Sports History, p 297
- ^ "Profile". IOC. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Profile". sportufo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
External linksβ»
- Nelli Abramova at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Soviet Jews
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Jewish volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Summer World University Games medalists in volleyball
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union