Nikolay Smaga
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's Athletics | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1968 Mexico City | 20 km Walk | |
European Championships | ||
1971 Helsinki | 20 km Walk | |
1966 Budapest | 20 km Walk | |
1969 Athens | 20 km Walk |
Nikolay Yakovlevich Smaga (Russian: Николай Яковлевич Смага, Template:Lang-uk; 22 August 1938 in village Bobrove, Sumy Oblast – March 28, 1981 in Kiev) was a Soviet athlete from Ukraine who competed mainly in the 20 kilometer walk. He trained at VSS Trud in Penza and later at VSS Avanhard in Kiev.
He competed for the USSR in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 20 kilometer walk where he won the bronze medal.
He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1968).
References
Categories:
- 1938 births
- 1981 deaths
- People from Lebedyn Raion
- Ukrainian male racewalkers
- Soviet male racewalkers
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs