Nikolay Karpol

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 national team (then the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russian national 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]

Nikolay Karpol
Nikolay Karpol at the Kremlin in 2018
Personal information
Full nameNikolay Vasilyevich Karpol
NicknameThe Howling Bear
Born (1938-05-01) 1 May 1938
Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Coaching information
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
1969–presentVC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg

Coaching and Administrative Awards

Summer Olympic Games

FIVB World Championships
  • 1990 – Gold medal (with URS)
  • 1994 – (with RUS)
  • 1998 – (with RUS)
  • 2002 – (with RUS)

European Championships
  • 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
  • 1993 – Third Place (with RUS)
  • 1997 – Champion (with RUS)
  • 2001 – Runner-Up (with RUS)

Grand-prix
  • 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

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

References
  1. Famous People in Volleyball. Coach Nikolai Karpol
  2. 82-летний Карполь установил новый мировой рекорд, отработав 51 год с одной командой
  3. Volleyball Hall of Fame. "Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees". Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  4. tombirtic. "Karpol: Lunatics – That's What I Need". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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