Nelli Abramova
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 84) 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: Не́лли Миха́йловна Абра́мова) (born 18 August 1940, in Chelyabinsk)[1] is a Jewish former Soviet competitive volleyball player.[2] She is an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964) and European champion (in 1967).[3]
Career
Abramova played from 1956 until 1975, for clubs in the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, winning the USSR Cup in 1974.[4] She played for the Soviet Union national team from 1964 to 1967 becoming an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964), Universiade champion (in 1965) and European champion (in 1967).
Clubs
Trud Chelyabinsk (1956–1962)
Spartak Irkutsk (1962–1966)
Burevestnik Odessa / Medin Odessa (1966–1975)
Honours and awards
- Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1971)
- National team
- 1964 Olympic Games – Silver medal
- 1965 Summer Universiade – Gold medal
- 1967 European Championship – Gold medal
- Clubs
- 1974 USSR Cup (champion with Medin Odessa)
See also
References
External links
- Nelli Abramova at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Soviet Union women's volleyball squad – 1964 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
- Nelli Abramova
- Astra Biltauere
- Lyudmila Buldakova
- Lyudmila Gureyeva
- Valentina Kamenyok
- Marita Katusheva
- Ninel Lukanina
- Valentina Mishak
- Tatyana Roshchina
- Inna Ryskal
- Antonina Ryzhova
- Tamara Tikhonina
- Coach: Oleg Czechow
![Soviet Union](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png)