Nikolay Karpol
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Full name | Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol | ||||||
Nickname | The Howling Bear | ||||||
Born |
1 May 1938 Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic |
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Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938, Bereznitsa village, former Polesie Voivodeship, Republic of Poland) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet and then Russian women's national teams.. 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 and 1988 and taking the silver medals in 1992, 2000 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.
Honours
Olympics 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
World Grand Champions Cup:
- 1993 – bronze,
- 1997 – gold,
- 2001 – silver.
Grand-prix:
- 1997, 1999, 2002 – gold,
- 1998, 2000, 2003 – silver,
- 1993, 1996, 2001 – bronze.
Winner of the European Championese League (Champions Cup):
- 1981–1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995.
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 Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class
- Honoured Worker of Physical Culture, Russia
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Oblast