Rosa Galyamovna Salikhova (russian: Роза Галямовна Салихова, tt-Cyrl, Роза Галләм кызы Салихова; born 24 September 1944) is a former

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 ...

. She was a major player to help Soviet Union women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in late 1960s to early 1970s by winning

1968 Mexico City Olympic Games The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

, 1970 FIVB Women's World Championship,

1972 Munich Olympic Games 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. ...

and

1973 FIVB Women's World Cup The 1973 FIVB Women's World Cup was held on 19–28 October 1973 in Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina t ...

in row.

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* 1944 births Possibly living people People from Nizhny Tagil Soviet women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics 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 Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub