Valentina Alexeyevna Vinogradova

Valentina Alexeyevna Vinogradova
portrait
Date of birth	May 17, 1943
place of birth	Moscow , Soviet Union
date of death	July 17, 2002
Place of death	Saint Petersburg , Russia
size	1.71 m
societies
1959-1960 1961-1971 1972-1977	Burewestnik Moscow VK CSKA Moscow Burewestnik Leningrad
National team
1963-1968	Soviet Union
successes
1963 1964 1967 1968	European Champion in Constanța Second Olympic Champion in Tokyo European Champion in Istanbul Olympic Champion in Mexico City

Valentina Alexejewna Winogradowa , b. Kamenjok ( Russian Валентина Алексеевна Виноградова , born Каменёк ; English transcription: Valentina Alekseyevna Kamenyok-Vinogradova *  17th May 1943 in Moscow ; †  17th July 2002 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet - Russian volleyball player . With the Soviet selection she became European and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

Valentina Vinogradova won her first international title at the 1963 European Championships in Constanța . 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.

In the next few years Vinogradova won gold medals with the Soviet team at the European Championships in Turkey in 1967 and the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City .

Winogradova won the volleyball Champions League twice with VK CSKA Moscow (1965/66 and 1966/67) and the Soviet championships six times (1963, 1965-1969).

Awards (selection)

• 1968: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR

Web links

• Valentina Alexejewna Winogradowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Valentina Vinogradowa on infosport.ru (Russian)
• Olympic successes and short biography on olympteka.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medal winners of the Olympic Games in 1964 and 1968 on olympic.org (English)
2. ↑ Winogradova's short biography on iblandt.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Valentina Winogradowa  ( 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. in the Great Olympic Encyclopedia (Russian)