Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Kovalenko ( March 17, 1934 , Moscow ) - Soviet volleyball player , player of the USSR national team (1960-1964). Olympic champion in 1964, two - time world champion (1960 and 1962), eight -time champion of the USSR . Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1962).
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Biography
He played for the team CSKMO / CSKA . Champion of the USSR 1955, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966. The Moscow national team includes the champion of the USSR and the winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR 1963, silver medalist of the Allied Championships and the Spartakiad of 1956 and 1959. Winner of the European Cup of Champions 1960 and 1962.
He participated in official competitions in the USSR team in 1960-1964. In its composition became the Olympic champion in 1964, two-time world champion (1960 and 1962), the bronze medalist of the European Championship 1963.
In 1956 he graduated from the V. Kuibyshev Moscow Civil Engineering Institute . Member of the CPSU since 1965. Candidate of Technical Sciences (1973), professor, author of more than 60 scientific papers on the theory and methods of physical education. In 1989-2002 he worked as the head of the department of physical education and sports of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering .
Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Kovalenko - Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation .
Literature
- Volleyball: Encyclopedia / Comp. V.L. Sviridov, O.S. Chekhov. - Tomsk: Yanson Company, 2001.
- Kovalenko Vitaliy // Olympic Encyclopedia / Pavlov S.P. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1980 .-- 415 p.