Nina Sawatzki

Nina Sawatzki
portrait
Date of birth	17th July 1954
place of birth	Yerevan , Armenian SSR
size	1.71 m
position	passing
societies
until 1974 1974–1982 1987–1988 1988–1992	Burewestnik Yerevan Dynamo Moscow AZS-AWF Warsaw Türk Gücü Munich Bavaria Lohhof
National team
300 times multiple	Soviet Union Germany
successes
1976 1977 1978 1975, 1977 1975, 1977 1989 1989 1990	Silver Olympic Games Montreal European champion in Finland World Cup bronze in the Soviet Union Soviet champion European cup winner of the national champions German runner-up 6th place European championship in Germany German runner-up
As of May 7, 2019

Nina Sawatzki , b. Muradjan ( Armenian Նինա Մուրադյան , born July 17, 1954 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ), temporarily Nina Witek , is a former Soviet and German volleyball player and today's coach of Armenian origin.

Career

Nina Muradjan played until 1974 in her native Yerevan with "Burewestnik". Then she moved to the Russian top club Dynamo Moscow , with whom she was both Soviet champions and European champions in 1975 and 1977 . The setter played 300 times for the Soviet national team and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 , was European champion in Finland in 1977 and took third place at the 1978 World Cup in her own country . In 1982 she was sidelined for several years because of a serious knee injury.

She had her first foreign assignments as Nina Witek at the Polish association AZS-AWF Warsaw . In 1987 she moved to Germany for Bundesliga club Türk Gücü Munich . In 1988 she remarried, took on German citizenship and moved to local rival Bayern Lohhof as Nina Sawatzki , with whom she was German runner-up in 1989 and 1990. She also played in the German national team and took sixth place at the European Championships in Germany in 1989 .

In 1990 Nina Sawatzki started a career as a coach. Until 2003 she was in charge of the German national junior team and then the national junior team. She has been working in Austria since 2007. Here she trains the Austrian juniors and is a youth trainer at the Aon hotVolleys Vienna .

Web links

• CEV trainer profile
• Nina Muradyan in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Ranking lists 1988 (PDF file; 3.31 MB)
• Ranking lists 1989 (PDF file; 2.89 MB)
• Ranking lists 1990 (PDF file; 3.16 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6x gold, 1 X silver, 2x bronze. (No longer available online.) Sportlive.at, June 15, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 19, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.