Tatyana Veinberga
{{Short description|Latvian volleyball player (1943–2008)}}
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| birth_place = Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland
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{{MedalSport | Women's volleyball }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{URS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalGold| 1968 Mexico City | Team competition}}
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Tatjana Veinberga (September 4, 1943 – April 3, 2008),Ivars Ošiņš Latvijas olimpiskais zelts, sudrabs, bronza. — Lauku avīze, 2008. — С. 28-29. — {{ISBN|978-9984-827-07-0}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/medallists-results?name=veinberga&category=&games=&sport=&event=&mengender=false&womengender=true&mixedgender=false&teamclassification=false&individualclassification=false&continent=&country=&goldmedal=true&silvermedal=false&bronzemedal=false&worldrecord=false&olympicrecord=false&targetresults=true |title=Olympic.org |access-date=2011-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011160628/http://www.olympic.org/medallists-results?name=veinberga&category=&games=&sport=&event=&mengender=false&womengender=true&mixedgender=false&teamclassification=false&individualclassification=false&continent=&country=&goldmedal=true&silvermedal=false&bronzemedal=false&worldrecord=false&olympicrecord=false&targetresults=true |archive-date=2012-10-11 |url-status=dead }} 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.
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- {{LOK|362|Tatjana Veinberga|old_id=tatjana-veinberga-362|archive=20210727213621}}
- {{Olympedia|2302448|Tatjana Veinberga}}
- {{Olympics.com|tatyana-veinberga|Tatyana Veinberga|org_archive=20190430210559}}
{{Soviet Union women volleyball team 1968 Olympics}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Riga
Category:Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
Category:Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Category:Soviet women's volleyball players
Category:Latvian women's volleyball players
Category:Olympic medalists in volleyball
Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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