Nikolay Karpol

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Nikolay Karpol
Nikolay Karpol at the Kremlin in 2018
Personal information
Full nameNikolay Vasilyevich Karpol
NicknameThe Howling Bear
Born (1938-05-01) 1 May 1938 (age 85)
Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Coaching information
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
1969–presentVC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg

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 Olympic Team, the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 (following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russian Federation’s Olympic Team. Known as The Howling Bear,[1] 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.[2]

Coaching and Administrative Awards[edit]

Summer Olympic Games[edit]

FIVB World Championships[edit]

  • 1990 – Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1994 - (with Russia RUS)
  • 1998 - (with Russia RUS)
  • 2002 – (with Russia RUS)

European Championships[edit]

  • 1977 - Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1979 - Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1981 - Silver medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1983 - Silver medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1985 - Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1987 - Silver medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1989 - Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1991 - Gold medal (with Soviet Union URS)
  • 1993 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1995 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1997 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1999 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2001 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2005 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2007 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)

World Grand Champions Cup[edit]

  • 1993 – Third Place (with Russia RUS)
  • 1997 – Champion (with Russia RUS)
  • 2001 – Runner-Up (with Russia RUS)

Grand-prix[edit]

  • 1993 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1996 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1997 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1998 - Silver medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 1999 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2000 - Silver medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2002 - Gold medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2001 - Bronze medal (with Russia RUS)
  • 2003 - Silver medal (with Russia RUS)

CEV Champions League[edit]


For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the Volleyball Hall of Fame.[3]

Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need.[4]

Honours and awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Famous People in Volleyball. Coach Nikolai Karpol
  2. ^ 82-летний Карполь установил новый мировой рекорд, отработав 51 год с одной командой
  3. ^ Volleyball Hall of Fame. "Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees". Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  4. ^ tombirtic. "Karpol: Lunatics – That's What I Need". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.

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