Mykola Tomyn
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Mykola Mykolayevich Tomyn is a former Soviet
/Ukrainian
handball
player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
and in the 1980 Summer Olympics
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In 1976 he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches as goalkeeper.
Four years later he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal. He played all six matches as goalkeeper again.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
/Ukrainian
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...
and in the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
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In 1976 he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches as goalkeeper.
Four years later he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal. He played all six matches as goalkeeper again.