Natalia Kushnir
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Full name | Natalia Grigoryevna Kushnir | |||||||||||||
Nickname | Наталья Григорьевна Кушнир | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||
Born | Moscow, Russia | May 6, 1954|||||||||||||
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Natalia Grigoryevna Kushnir (Russian: Наталья Григорьевна Кушнир; born May 6, 1954) is a former Soviet volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist.[1]
Kushnir, who is Jewish, was born in Moscow, Russia.[1][2][3][4][5] She played volleyball for Lokomotiv Moskva, and for the Soviet Union.[1]
Kushnir and the Soviet Union team won the team gold medal in volleyball at the 1971 European Championships.[6] She and the Soviet team won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, losing to Japan in the finals.[1][3][6]
See also[]
- List of Jewish volleyball players
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Nataliya Kushnir Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ^ Peter S. Horvitz (April 2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. 2007. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ^ a b Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists. ISBN 9781903900888. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. ISBN 9780881259698. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ^ Paul Yogi Mayer (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. ISBN 9780853035169. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ^ a b "Kushnir, Natalia". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
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Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Russian women's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Moscow
- Jewish women's volleyball players
- Soviet Jews
- Russian Jews
- Russian volleyball biography stubs
- Russian Olympic medalist stubs