Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli
volleyball
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manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time.
Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years 1975–1984, a team that would go on to win the Bronze medal in the 1982 World Championship and the Silver Medal in the
1984 Summer Olympics
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Los Angeles, USA
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. Selinger won gold, silver and bronze as a coach in games and championships worldwide, including a Silver Medal for the Men's Team of the Netherlands at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
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Barcelona, Spain
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See also
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List of select Jewish volleyball players
References
Jewish volleyball players
Israeli men's volleyball players
Israeli volleyball coaches
Volleyball coaches of international teams
Polish emigrants to Israel
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Israeli Jews
Sportspeople from Kraków
1937 births
Living people
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in volleyball
Coaches at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Coaches at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Polish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Polish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Nazi concentration camp survivors
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