Inna Ryskal

Inna Valerievna Ryskal ( born 15 June 1944 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a former Soviet volleyball player for the USSR. She was one of the pre-eminent players of the 1960s and the early 1970s, training at VSS Neftchi in Baku.

She was a major player to help Soviet Union women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in late 1960s to early 1970s by winning 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, 1970 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1972 Munich Olympic Games and 1973 FIVB Women's World Cup in row . She achieved an Olympic silver medals in 1964 and 1976. She also won European Volleyball Championship in 1963, 1967 and 1971. In 1972 she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

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1944 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Baku

Azerbaijani people of Russian descent

Soviet women's volleyball players

Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union

Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union

Azerbaijani 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

Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Recipients of the Shohrat Order