Nadezhda Ilyina
Appearance
Olympic medal record | ||
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Women’s athletics | ||
1976 Montreal | 4 x 400 metres |
Nadezhda Ilyina (Template:Lang-ru, née Колесникова, Kolesnikova; 24 January 1949 - 7 December 2013) was a Russian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.[1]
Ilyina trained at Dynamo in Moscow. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Inta Kļimoviča, Lyudmila Aksyonova and Natalya Sokolova. She was the mother of Russian tennis star Nadia Petrova.
Ilyina died in a car accident in December 2013.[1]
References
- ^ a b Matt Cronin. "Report: Petrova's Olympian mother dies in car crash". tennis.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
External links
Categories:
- 1949 births
- 2013 deaths
- Russian sprinters
- Soviet sprinters
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Road incident deaths in Russia
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs