Nelli Abramova
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Full name | Nelli Mikhaylovna Abramova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Soviet Union Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | 18 August 1940|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 female 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[]
- List of select Jewish volleyball players
References[]
- ^ "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 links[]
- Nelli Abramova at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Soviet Jews
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Jewish women's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of 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
- Universiade medalists in volleyball
- Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union