Olga Kuragina
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| Born | Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina 21 April 1959 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina (Russian: Ольга Витальевна Курагина; born 21 April 1959) is a former Soviet track and field athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon. Married name Olga Nemogayeva.[1]
She competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, in the Pentathlon where she won the bronze medal behind team mates Nadiya Tkachenko and Olga Rukavishnikova for a Soviet clean sweep in the last Olympic pentathlon competition, after 1980 the women competed in the heptathlon event instead.[2]
References
- ↑ "Olga NEMOGAYEVA". worldathletics.org. 1 January 1996. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Kuragina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
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Categories:
- Living people
- 1959 births
- Russian pentathletes
- Soviet pentathletes
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Russian women athletes
- Soviet women athletes
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Russian sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Kirov, Kirov Oblast
- Competitors at the 1979 Summer Universiade
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs