Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet national team (then the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russia women's national volleyball 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,[2] and 2004, for a total of five Olympic medals.[3] In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.[4][5]
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 Nikolay Karpol at the Kremlin in 2018 | |||||||
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| Full name | Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol | ||||||
| Nickname | The Howling Bear | ||||||
| Born | 1 May 1938 Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic | ||||||
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Karpol coached the Soviet women to the gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle[6] and the Russian women to the gold medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg.[7][8]
In 2009, Karpol was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.[3][9]
Coaching and Administrative Awards
edit- 1980 Moscow –
Gold medal (with 
URS) - 1988 Seoul – Gold medal (with URS)
- 1992 Barcelona –
Silver medal (with 
EUN) - 2000 Sydney – Silver medal (with
RUS) - 2004 Athens – Silver medal (with RUS)
- 1977 - Gold medal (with URS)
- 1979 - Gold medal (with URS)
- 1981 - Silver medal (with URS)
- 1983 - Silver medal (with URS)
- 1985 - Gold medal (with URS)
- 1987 - Silver medal (with URS)
- 1989 - Gold medal (with URS)
- 1991 - Gold medal (with URS)
- 1993 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 1995 -
Bronze medal (with RUS) - 1997 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 1999 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 2001 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 2005 - Bronze medal (with RUS)
- 2007 - Bronze medal (with RUS)
World Grand Champions Cup
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Grand-prix
edit- 1993 - Bronze medal (with RUS)
- 1996 - Bronze medal (with RUS)
- 1997 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 1998 - Silver medal (with RUS)
- 1999 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 2000 - Silver medal (with RUS)
- 2002 - Gold medal (with RUS)
- 2001 - Bronze medal (with RUS)
- 2003 - Silver medal (with RUS)
- 1981 -
Champion (with 
Uralochka Sverdlovsk) - 1982 - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1983 - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1987 - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1988 -
Runner-Up (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) - 1989 - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1990 - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1991 - Runner-Up (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1992 -
Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) - 1993 - Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 1994 - Champion (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 1995 - Champion (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 1996 - Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 1997 - Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 2000 - Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 2001 - Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
- 2003 - Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book "Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need".[10]
Honours and awards
edit- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class
- Honoured Worker of Physical Culture, Russia
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Oblast
References
edit- ^ "Famous People in Volleyball Coach Nikolai Karpol". VolleyballAdvisors.com. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ Roberts, Selena (1 October 2000). "Sydney 2000: Volleyball; Cuba Cruises to Third Straight Gold". The New York Times. sec. 8 p. 13. Retrieved 6 September 2024. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Nikolay Karpol". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ Mozkovoy, Anton (20 May 2020). "82-летний Карполь установил новый мировой рекорд, отработав 51 год с одной командой". Championat.com (in Russian). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Karpol Dynasty – 51 Seasons at Uralochka and Counting (Part 1)". FIVB. 3 April 2020. Archived from the original on 8 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ Krastev, Todor. "Women Volleyball Goodwill Games 1990 Seatle (USA) - 31.07-05.08 Winner Soviet Union". Todor66.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ Possehl, Suzanne (4 August 1994). "Goodwill Games: Notebook; U.S. and Russia Will Volley for Gold". The New York Times. p. B16. Retrieved 7 September 2024. (subscription required)
- ^ Krastev, Todor. "Women Volleyball Goodwill Games 1994 Sankt Petersburg (RUS) - 07-.08 Winner Soviet Union". Todor66.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ "Karpol: Lunatics – That's What I Need". TomislavBirtic.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
External links
edit- Nikolay Karpol at WorldofVolley
- FIVB profile
- Volleybox.net profile
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