Nikolay Karakulov

{{short description|Soviet sprinter}}

{{family name hatnote|Zakharovich|Karakulov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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| birth_date = 10 August 1918

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| death_date = 10 March 1988 (aged 69)

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Sprint

| pb = 100 m – 10.4 (1948)
200 m – 21.6 (1946)[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=3205&Gender=M Nikolay Karakulov]. trackfield.brinkster.net

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{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1946 Oslo|200 m}}

{{MedalGold|1950 Brussels|4×100 m relay}}

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Nikolay Zakharovich Karakulov ({{langx|ru|Николай Захарович Каракулов}}; 10 August 1918 – 10 March 1988){{cite web |url=http://sport-necropol.narod.ru/karakulov.html |script-title=ru:Каракулов Николай Захарович (1918–1988) |access-date=7 April 2014 |publisher=Спортивный некрополь |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322060638/http://sport-necropol.narod.ru/karakulov.html |archive-date=22 March 2013 }} was a Soviet sprinter who won gold medals at the 1946 and 1950 European championships.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm |magazine=Athletics Weekly |title=EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN) |access-date=7 April 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopaedia.lysva.ru/9/9-6.pdf |format=PDF |script-title=ru:Звезды лысьвенского спорта |language=ru |author=A.M. Batuev |access-date=7 April 2014}} Domestically he won 17 Soviet titles, including seven consecutive titles over 100 m from 1943 to 1949.{{cite web |url=http://www.peoples.ru/sport/atlete/karakulov/ |script-title=ru:Николай Каракулов |language=ru |publisher=Peoples.ru |access-date=7 April 2014}}

In 1957 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.