Lyubov Nikolaevna Tyurina (April 25, 1943 – October 23, 2015) was a

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

player for the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

who won a gold medal at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

in Munich, West Germany.Volleyball's Olympic champion dies
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2015 deaths 1943 births Volleyball players from Moscow Soviet women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Russian women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub