Nelli Abramova
Personal information
Full nameNelli Mikhaylovna Abramova
Nationality Soviet Union
 Russia
Born (1940-08-18) 18 August 1940
Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Career
YearsTeams
1956–1962Trud Chelyabinsk
1962–1966Spartak Irkutsk
1966–1975Burevestnik Odessa
National team
1964–1967Soviet Union
Honours
Women's volleyball
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1967 Turkey Team
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1965 Budapest Team

Nelli Mikhaylovna Abramova (Russian: Не́лли Миха́йловна Абра́мова) (born 18 August 1940, in Chelyabinsk)[1] is a Jewish former Soviet competitive volleyball player.[2] She is an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964) and European champion (in 1967).[3]

Career

Abramova played from 1956 until 1975, for clubs in the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, winning the USSR Cup in 1974.[4] She played for the Soviet Union national team from 1964 to 1967 becoming an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964), Universiade champion (in 1965) and European champion (in 1967).

Clubs

  • Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Trud Chelyabinsk (1956–1962)
  • Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Irkutsk (1962–1966)
  • Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Burevestnik Odessa / Medin Odessa (1966–1975)

Honours and awards

National team
Clubs
  • 1974 USSR Cup (champion with Medin Odessa)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Bob Wechsler, Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, p 297
  3. ↑ "Profile". IOC. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Profile". sportufo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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