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Larisa Bergen Лари́са Бе́рген
Bergen in 1976
Personal information
Full name	Larisa Abramovna Bergen (Goncharova-)
Born	(1949-09-22)22 September 1949 Akmolinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died	7 April 2023(2023-04-07) (aged 73)
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	148 lb (67 kg)
Medal record Women's volleyball Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team FIVB World Cup 1973 Uruguay Team

Larisa Abramovna Bergen (Russian: Лари́са Абра́мовна Бе́рген; 22 September 1949 — 7 April 2023) was a volleyball player for the USSR. She was Jewish, and was born in Akmolinsk, Kazakh SSR. Bergen played for ADK Alma-Ata and Dynamo Moscow. She won a silver medal in volleyball at the 1976 Olympics, in Montreal, Canada.

Bergen died on 7 April 2023, at the age of 73.

See also

• List of select Jewish volleyball players

References

1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Larisa Bergen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
2. Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
3. "Olympic Volleyball History". Volleyball.org. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
4. "Soviet Union Olympic silver medal winning volleyball player dies". Inside The Games. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
5. "Серебряный призёр ОИ-1976 волейболистка Лариса Берген умерла на 74-м году жизни". Gazeta.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 April 2023.

External links

• Larisa Bergen at Volleybox
• Larisa Bergen at Olympics.com
• Larisa Bergen at Olympedia

v t e Soviet Union squad – 1973 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup – Gold medal
Larisa Bergen Lyudmila Borozna Lyudmila Chernyshyova Vera Galushka-Duyunova Natalia Eremina Tatyana Gonobobleva Evgeniya Kuzina Inna Ryskal Rosa Salikhova Lyudmila Shchetinina Nina Smoleyeva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Coach: Givi Akhvlediani

v t e Soviet Union women's volleyball squad – 1976 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
Anna Rostova Lyudmila Shchetinina Liliya Osadchaya Inna Ryskal Natalia Kushnir Olga Kozakova Nina Smoleyeva Lyubov Rudovskaya Larisa Bergen Lyudmila Chernyshyova Zoya Yusova Nina Muradyan Coach: Givi Akhvlediani

• 1949 births
• 2023 deaths
• Kazakhstani women's volleyball players
• Soviet women's volleyball players
• Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
• Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic medalists in volleyball
• Jewish volleyball players
• Jewish Kazakhstani sportspeople
• Soviet Jews
• Sportspeople from Astana
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics