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Aleksandra Chudina
Aleksandra Chudina at the 1952 Olympics
Personal information
Born(1923-11-06)6 November 1923
Kurkinsky District, Tula Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Died28 October 1990(1990-10-28) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
ClubDynamo Moscow
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki Long jump
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki Javelin throw
Bronze medal – third place 1952 Helsinki High jump
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1954 Bern Pentathlon
Silver medal – second place 1946 Oslo High jump
Silver medal – second place 1954 Bern Long jump
Volleyball
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1952 Soviet Union Team
Gold medal – first place 1956 France Team
Gold medal – first place 1960 Brazil Team
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1949 Czechoslovakia Team
Gold medal – first place 1950 Bulgaria Team
Gold medal – first place 1951 France Team
Gold medal – first place 1958 Czechoslovakia Team
Silver medal – second place 1955 Romania Team

Aleksandra Georgievna Chudina (Template:Lang-ru; 6 November 1923 – 28 October 1990) was a Soviet athlete who excelled in field hockey, volleyball, and various track and field events.[2]

Field hockey

Chudina took a wide range of sports and excelled first in field hockey, where she started playing as a defender in 1937 and later changed to a forward. With her team Dynamo Moscow she won several major tournaments at the city and national levels between 1937 and 1947.[3]

Athletics

Chudina then changed to athletics, and had a first international success in 1946, when she finished second in the high jump at the European championships. At the 1952 Summer Olympics she won silver medals in the javelin throw and long jump and a bronze in the high jump.[4] On 22 May 1954, she set a new world record in the high jump at 1.73 meters.[5] The same year she won two European medals in the pentathlon and long jump, but finished only sixth in the high jump.[4]

Volleyball

Between 1947 and 1963 Chudina was also a member, and often the captain, of the Dynamo and national volleyball teams. With the national teams she won world championships in 1952, 1956 and 1960,[6] and European championships in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1958, finishing second in 1955.[7]

Personal life

Chudina was one of the most popular Soviet sportspersons of the 1950s, and was then used by the Soviet media as an example of superiority of the national sport programs. She was a colorful person who had a coarse low voice, enjoyed alcohol drinking and playing cards in a company, and was a careless car driver. After retiring from competitions (as she was suspected in being an Intersex person)[8][9][10] she worked as a sports administrator and was soon forgotten. She had developed tuberculosis and lost one leg due to gangrene. A chain smoker through much of her life, she died of a stomach cancer, aged 66.[11]

References

  1. ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "Чудина", available online here[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 392.
  3. ^ Чудина Александра Георгиевна (1923-1990) Archived 29 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. sport-necropol.narod.ru
  4. ^ a b Aleksandra Chudina. sports-reference.com
  5. ^ "World Records for High Jump (Women)". World Records. Cleave Books. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2008.
  6. ^ "Volleyball - Weltmeisterschaften (Damen)". Historie. Sport Komplett. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Volleyball - Europameisterschaften (Damen)". Historie. Sport Komplett. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
  8. ^ "Галина Зыбина: "За женскую сборную СССР выставляли мужчин. Мы-то знали"". 24 July 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  9. ^ "Галина Зыбина подтвердила, что тульская легкоатлетка Чудина была гермафродитом | Тула-Спорт". tula-sport.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Секс-тест или Олимпийские Гендерные войны". diletant.media (in Russian). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  11. ^ Boris Valiev (12 October 2002) Супервершины Александры Чудиной. sovsport.ru