Larisa Bergen

{{short description|Soviet volleyball player (1949–2023)}}

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| name = Larisa Bergen
{{nobold|Лари́са Бе́рген}}

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| caption = Bergen in 1976

| fullname = Larisa Abramovna Bergen (Goncharova-)

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1949|9|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Akmolinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|4|7|1949|9|22|df=y}}

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| height = 1.71 m

| weight = 148 lb

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| medaltemplates-title = Medal record

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{{MedalSport | Women's volleyball }}

{{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }}

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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalSilver | 1976 Montreal | Team }}

{{MedalCompetition|FIVB World Cup}}

{{MedalGold|1973 Uruguay|Team}}

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Larisa Abramovna Bergen ({{langx|ru|Лари́са Абра́мовна Бе́рген}}; 22 September 1949 — 7 April 2023) was a volleyball player for the USSR.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/larisa-bergen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418120421/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/larisa-bergen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Larisa Bergen |accessdate=16 October 2011}} She was Jewish,{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists |author=Taylor, Paul |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |year=2004 |isbn=9781903900888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&dq=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22++larysa&pg=PA225 |accessdate=16 October 2011}} 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.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.volleyball.org/olympics/history.html |title=Olympic Volleyball History |publisher=Volleyball.org |date= |accessdate=16 October 2011}}

Bergen died on 7 April 2023, at the age of 73.{{cite news |title=Soviet Union Olympic silver medal winning volleyball player dies |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1135713/soviet-olleyball-olympic-medallist-dies |access-date=10 April 2023 |publisher=Inside The Games |date=8 April 2023}}{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.gazeta.ru/sport/news/2023/04/07/20161219.shtml|title=Серебряный призёр ОИ-1976 волейболистка Лариса Берген умерла на 74-м году жизни|website=Gazeta.ru|access-date=7 April 2023}}