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Yury Vengerovsky

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Olympic medal record
Men's Volleyball
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Team

Yury Naumovich Vengerovsky (Ukrainian: Юрій Наумович Венгеровський, Russian: Юрий Наумович Венгеровский; 26 October 1938 – 4 December 1998) was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

He was Jewish,[1] born in Kharkiv, and died in Belgorod, Russia.

In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.

He played in Burevetsnik Kharkiv and CSKA Moscow. He retired from playing in 1972, and had a managerial career in "Burevetsnik", CSKA (Rostov-on-Don), Spartak Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Avtomobilist Samara, and VC Belogorie.

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  1. ^ Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame. ISBN 9781574882841. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
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