Nina Rocheva

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Nina Rocheva
Medal record
Women's cross-country skiing
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Lake Placid 4 × 5 km relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1974 Falun 4 × 5 km relay
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Lahti 4 × 5 km relay

Nina Petrovna Rocheva (Russian: Нина Петровна Рочева, née Selyunina; 13 October 1948) is a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed from 1978 to 1980. She won a silver medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Rocheva also earned two medals in the 4 × 5 km relay at the world ski championships: gold (under her maiden name Selyunina at the 1974 Championships in Falun, Sweden, and bronze at the 1978 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.

She is married to the Soviet Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Vasily (Pavlovich) Rochev, she is the mother of Vasily (Vasilyevich) Rochev, also Olympic medalist in that discipline.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

  • 1 medal – (1 silver)
 Year   Age   5 km   10 km  4 × 5 km 
 relay 
1980 31 15 Silver

World Championships

  • 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 bronze)
 Year   Age   5 km  10 km  20 km  4 × 5 km 
 relay 
1974 25 Gold
1978 29 8 Bronze

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