Nelli Abramova
Personal information
Full nameNelli Mikhaylovna Abramova
Nationality Soviet Union
 Russia
Born (1940-08-18) 18 August 1940
Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Career
YearsTeams
1956–1962Trud Chelyabinsk
1962–1966Spartak Irkutsk
1966–1975Burevestnik Odessa
National team
1964–1967Soviet Union
Honours
Women's volleyball
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1967 Turkey Team
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1965 Budapest Team

Nelli Mikhaylovna Abramova (Russian: Не́лли Миха́йловна Абра́мова) (born 18 August 1940, in Chelyabinsk)[1] is a Jewish former Soviet competitive volleyball player.[2] She is an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964) and European champion (in 1967).[3]

Career

Abramova played from 1956 until 1975, for clubs in the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, winning the USSR Cup in 1974.[4] She played for the Soviet Union national team from 1964 to 1967 becoming an Olympic silver medallist (in 1964), Universiade champion (in 1965) and European champion (in 1967).

Clubs

  • Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Trud Chelyabinsk (1956–1962)
  • Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Irkutsk (1962–1966)
  • Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Burevestnik Odessa / Medin Odessa (1966–1975)

Honours and awards

National team
Clubs
  • 1974 USSR Cup (champion with Medin Odessa)

See also

References

  1. "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  2. Bob Wechsler, Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, p 297
  3. "Profile". IOC. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  4. "Profile". sportufo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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