Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol (russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938) is a Soviet and Russian women's
volleyball coach. Known as ''The Howling Bear'', 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
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
and
1988
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and taking the silver medals in
1992
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,
2000
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and
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
for a total of five
Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching
Uralochka for 51 years.
Honours
Olympic Games (as coach):
* 1980, 1988 – gold,
* 1992, 2000, 2004 – silver.
World Championships:
* 1990 – gold,
* 1994, 1998, 2002 – bronze.
Championships of Europe:
* 1977 (coach), 1979, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001 – gold
For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the
Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book
Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need.
Honours and awards
*
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980)
*
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1989)
*
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1998)
* Honorary Citizen of the
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...
(1999)
*
Order of Friendship (2005)
*
Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2018)
References
External links
FIVB Profile
1938 births
Living people
People from Polesie Voivodeship
Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian volleyball coaches
Soviet volleyball coaches
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