Nikolay Karpol


Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol is a Russian women's volleyball coach. Known as The Howling Bear, 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 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.

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Olympics games :
World Championships:
Championships of Europe:
World Grand Champions Cup:
Grand-prix:
Winner of the European Championese League :
For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book.

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