Lyudmila Maslakova

Lyudmila Maslakova
Personal information
Born (1952-02-26) 26 February 1952
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place1980 Moscow4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1968 Mexico City4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1976 Montreal4×100 m relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1978 Prague4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1971 Helsinki4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1978 Prague100 m
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place1970 Turin4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place1973 Moscow4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place1975 Rome100 m
Gold medal – first place1975 Rome4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place1977 Sofia4x100 m relay

Lyudmila Ilyinichna Maslakova (Russian: Людмила Ильинична Маслакова, née Жаркова, Zharkova; born 26 February 1952 in Astrakhan) is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.

Career

Maslakova trained at VSS Trud in Sverdlovsk and later at Burevestnik in Moscow. She competed for the USSR in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 4 × 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her teammates Galina Bukharina, Vera Popkova and Lyudmila Samotyosova.

Her next Olympic medal came in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada again in the 4 × 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her teammates Tatyana Prorochenko, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya and Vera Anisimova.

Her third Olympic medal came 12 years after her first in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union once again in the 4 × 100 metres where she improved to the silver medal with her teammates Vera Komisova, Vera Anisimova and Natalya Bochina.

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