Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938, Bereznitsa village, former Polesie Voivodeship, Republic of Poland) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet Olympic Team, the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 (following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russian Federation’s Olympic 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 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.[2]
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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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Coaching and Administrative Awards edit
Summer Olympic Games 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)
FIVB World Championships edit
European Championships edit
- 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 edit
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)
CEV Champions League edit
- 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)
For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the Volleyball Hall of Fame.[3]
Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need.[4]
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
- ^ 82-летний Карполь установил новый мировой рекорд, отработав 51 год с одной командой
- ^ Volleyball Hall of Fame. "Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees". Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ tombirtic. "Karpol: Lunatics – That's What I Need". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
External links edit
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