Nina Smoleyeva
Appearance
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Full name | Nina Nikolayevna Smoleyeva (Nikitina) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Volkhov, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 28 March 1948||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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Nina Smoleyeva (born 28 March 1948) is a former volleyball player for the USSR.[1] Smoloyeva was a major player who helped the Soviet Union women's national volleyball team to become the most dominant team in the late 1960s to early 1970s, by winning the 1968 Olympics, the 1970 FIVB World Championship, the 1972 Olympics, and the 1973 FIVB World Cup in row.[2] She also helped the Soviet Union to European Championship titles in 1967, 1971, 1975, and 1977.[3]
In 2006, Smoleyeva was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nina Smoleyeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Nina Smoleeva". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ^ "Nina Smoleyeva". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
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- Living people
- 1948 births
- People from Volkhov
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Russian women's volleyball players
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Sportspeople from Leningrad Oblast
- International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees
- 20th-century Russian sportswomen