Olga Kuragina
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1980 Moscow | Pentathlon |
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.
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 Nadezhda 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.[1]
References
- ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/olga-kuragina-1.html Sports References
Categories:
- Living people
- 1959 births
- Russian pentathletes
- Soviet pentathletes
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Russian female athletes
- Soviet female athletes
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs