Nikolay Melnikov (water polo)
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| Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 January 1948 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nikolai Andreyevich Melnikov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Мельников; born 24 January 1948) is a former water polo player for the Soviet Union.[1] He is Jewish, and was born in Moscow, Russia.[1][2] He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.[1]
See also
- Soviet Union men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of world champions in men's water polo
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- List of select Jewish water polo players
References
- 1 2 3 Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ↑ "Melnikov, Nikolai". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
External links
- Nikolai Melnikov at World Aquatics
- Nikolai Melnikov at Olympics.com
- Nikolai Melnikov at Olympedia
- Nikolai Melnikov at InterSportStats
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Categories:
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Soviet Jews
- Jewish Russian sportspeople
- Water polo players from Moscow
- Soviet male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players for the Soviet Union
- Water polo players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Russian male water polo players
- Summer World University Games medalists in water polo
- Moscow State University alumni
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen
- Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade
- Russian water polo biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Soviet water polo biography stubs