Yelena Akhaminova
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| Full name | Yelena Rabigovna Sokolovskaya (Akhaminova) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Soviet Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 1961 Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Middle blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yelena Rabigovna Sokolovskaya (née Akhaminova) (Russian: Еле́на Раби́говна Соколо́вская (Ахами́нова)) (born 5 October 1961 in Sverdlovsk) is a Soviet Russian-born Ukrainian former volleyball player and coach. As a player for the Soviet Union she is an Olympic gold medallist (in 1980) and European champion (in 1979).[1]
Player career
[edit]Sokolovskaya played from 1977 until 2002 for clubs in the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Finland, Post-Soviet Ukraine, and Poland. She won many titles including the CEV Women's Champions League, CEV Cup, USSR Championship, Soviet Cup, Polish Championship and Polish Cup.[2]
She played for the Soviet Union national team at junior and senior level from 1979 to 1983, taking part of the World Championship (in 1982) and becoming Olympic champion (in 1980), World Cup bronze medallist (in 1981), European champion (in 1979) and European silver medallist (in 1981 and in 1983).[3][4]
Clubs
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Uralochka Sverdlovsk (1977–1982)
Medin Odesa (1982–1989)
Haukiputaan Heitto (1989–1993)
Dinamo-Jinestra Odesa (1993–1994)
Chemik Police (1994–1995)
? (1995–2002)- Khimik Yuzhne (2002–2003)
Coach career
[edit]In 2006, Sokolovskaya was appointed head coach of Ukrainian women's volleyball club VC Jinestra (previously called Dinamo-Jinestra Odesa). She won twice the Ukrainian Cup and finished four times as runners up of the Ukrainian Super League during her six seasons as coach, before the club folded in 2012.[5][6]
Honours and awards
[edit]Individual Achievements
[edit]- 1980 -
Merited Master of Sports of the USSR
Team Achievements - Player
[edit]- National team
- Junior
- 1979 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship –
Gold medal - 1979 Summer Universiade – Gold medal
- Senior
- 1979 European Championship – Gold medal
- 1980 Olympic Games – Gold medal
- 1981 European Championship –
Silver medal - 1981 World Cup –
Bronze medal - 1983 European Championship – Silver medal
- Club
- 1978 USSR Championship -
Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) - 1979 USSR Championship - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1980 USSR Championship - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1980-81 CEV Champions League - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1981 USSR Championship - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1981–82 CEV Champions League - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1982 USSR Championship - Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
- 1983 Soviet Cup -
Champion (with Medin Odesa) - 1983 CEV Cup -
Champion (with Medin Odesa) - 1994-95 Polish Championship - Champion (with Chemik Police)
- 1995 Polish Cup -
Champion (with Chemik Police)
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Team Achievements - Coaching
[edit]- Club
- 2010 Ukrainian Cup -
Champion (with Dinamo-Jinestra Odesa) - 2011 Ukrainian Cup - Champion (with Dinamo-Jinestra Odesa)
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Кабардинская звезда Елена Соколовская". Kabardino-Balkaria 24 (in Russian). 3 September 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Profile". IOC. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Profile". sportufo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Profile". Jinestra volley (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Откровенно. Елена Соколовская о волейболе и планах на будущее". Odesa-Sport (in Russian). 9 October 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
External links
[edit]- Yelena Akhaminova at WorldofVolley
- Yelena Akhaminova at Olympics.com
- Yelena Akhaminova at Olympedia
- Volleybox.net Profile
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- 1961 births
- Living people
- Volleyball players from Yekaterinburg
- Ukrainian women's volleyball players
- Soviet women's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Soviet expatriate sportspeople in Finland
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- Ukrainian volleyball coaches
- Summer World University Games medalists in volleyball
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni