Nikolay Karpol
Russian women's volleyball coach (born 1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938, Bereznitsa village, former Polesie Voivodeship, Republic of Poland) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet national team (then the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russian national team. Known as The Howling Bear,[1] Karpol was a regular at the Olympic Games, with his teams usually earning a last call on the Olympic podium, winning gold medals in 1980 and 1988 and taking the silver medals in 1992, 2000 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.[2]
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Full name | Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol | ||||||
Nickname | The Howling Bear | ||||||
Born | (1938-05-01) 1 May 1938 (age 86) Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic | ||||||
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