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Tatjana Veinberga
Personal information
Nationality	Latvian
Born	(1943-09-04)September 4, 1943 Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Died	April 3, 2008(2008-04-03) (aged 64)
Honours Women's volleyball Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City Team competition

Tatjana Veinberga (September 4, 1943 – April 3, 2008), also known as Tatyana, is a Latvian former volleyball player for the Soviet Union. She was a member of the Soviet squad that won a gold medal in women's volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but she did not actually take part in any of the team's matches. To this day she remains as the first and only Latvian Olympic volleyball champion in history.

Veinberga played in the Soviet national team from 1967 to 1969, as well as represented the Latvian teams LVU, "Elektrons" and "Daugava" from 1961 til 1969.

References

1. Ivars Ošiņš Latvijas olimpiskais zelts, sudrabs, bronza. — Lauku avīze, 2008. — С. 28-29. — ISBN 978-9984-827-07-0
2. "Olympic.org". Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2011-04-25.

External links

• Tatjana Veinberga at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)
• Tatjana Veinberga at Olympedia (archive)
• Tatyana Veinberga at Olympics.com
• Tatyana Veinberga at Olympic.org (archived)

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Lyudmila Buldakova Lyudmila Mikhaylovskaya Tatyana Veinberga Vera Lantratova Vera Galushka-Duyunova Tatyana Sarycheva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Nina Smoleyeva Galina Leontyeva Inna Ryskal Rosa Salikhova Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova Coach: Givi Akhvlediani

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