Inna Ryskal
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Full name | Inna Valeryevna Ryskal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Инна Валерьевна Рыскаль | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Soviet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | 15 June 1944|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Inna Valeryevna Ryskal (Russian: Инна Валерьевна Рыскаль; born 15 June 1944 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR[1]) is a former Soviet volleyball player for the USSR. She was one of the pre-eminent players of the 1960s and the early 1970s, training at VSS Neftchi in Baku.[2]
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, 1970 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1972 Munich Olympic Games and 1973 FIVB Women's World Cup in row [1]. She achieved an Olympic silver medals in 1964 and 1976. She also won European Volleyball Championship in 1963, 1967 and 1971.[2] In 1972 she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Рыскаль Инна Валериевна in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
- ^ a b c Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 576.
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Baku
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Shohrat Order
- Azerbaijani sportspeople stubs
- European volleyball biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Azerbaijani people of Russian descent
- Azerbaijani women's volleyball players
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Soviet volleyball coaches
- International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees