Inna Valeryevna Ryskal

Inna Valeryevna Ryskal
portrait
Date of birth	June 15, 1944
place of birth	Baku , Azerbaijani SSR
size	1.72 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
	Neftschi Baku
National team
1962-1976	Soviet Union
successes
1962 1963 1964 1967 1968 1970 1971 1972 1974 1976	Vice World Champion, European Champion, Second Olympic Champion, Olympic Champion, World Champion, European Champion, Olympic Champion, Vice World Champion, Olympic Second
As of April 6, 2017

Inna Valeryevna Ryskal ( Russian Инна Валерьевна Рыскаль ; born June 15, 1944 in Baku ) is a former Soviet volleyball player who won four Olympic medals.

The 1.72 m tall Inna Ryskal from Neftschi Baku made her debut at the 1962 World Cup in the Soviet national volleyball team, the team won the silver medal behind the Japanese in front of their home crowd. Inna Ryskal won her first international title at the European Championships in 1963 . The following year, the Olympic premiere for volleyball took place at the 1964 Olympic Games . In the last and decisive game of the tournament, the Japanese won over the Soviet players, who received the silver medal. At the World Cup in 1967 took over the Soviet team, like all other Eastern Bloc teams not participate after no agreement on the names of the eligible to participate teams from the host Japanese North Korea and from the GDR came.

Over the next five years, Inna Ryskal won gold medals with the Soviet team at the 1967 European Championship , the 1968 Olympic Games , the 1970 World Championship , the 1971 European Championship and the 1972 Olympic Games . In her last major appearances at the 1974 World Cup and at the 1976 Olympic Games , Inna Ryskal won another silver medal, gold went to the Japanese in both cases.

In 2000 Inna Ryskal was inducted into the " Volleyball Hall of Fame ".

Web links

• Inna Walerjewna Ryskal in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Hall of Fame (English)
• "Caspian Thunderstorm" - the daughter of the "Self-Sacrificer"
• Volleyball world championships with line-up
• European volleyball championships with line-up