Nina Smoleyeva (born 28 March 1948) is a former volleyball player for the USSR. Smoloyeva was a major player who helped the Soviet Union women's national volleyball team to become the most dominant team in the late 1960s to early 1970s, by winning the 1968 Olympics, the 1970 FIVB World Championship, the 1972 Olympics, and the 1973 FIVB World Cup in row. She also helped the Soviet Union to European Championship titles in 1967, 1971, 1975, and 1977.

In 2006, Smoleyeva was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Nina Smoleyeva

References

External links

International Volleyball Hall of Fame Profile

Living people

1948 births

People from Volkhov

Soviet women's volleyball players

Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union

Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union

Russian women's volleyball players

Olympic medalists in volleyball

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Sportspeople from Leningrad Oblast

Nina Smoleyeva