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Tatyana Kazankina
Tatyana Kazankina in November 2019
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal
800 m
1976 Montreal
1500 m
1980 Moscow
1500 m
World Championships
1983 Helsinki
3000 m
Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (Russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet/Russian former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik.
A month before the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 m in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 beating Ludmila Bragina's world record by 5.4 seconds. She won the 1500 m and 800 m golds in the Montreal games, setting a world record in the latter. In 1980, she ran the 1500 m in 3:52.47, becoming the first woman to run the distance faster than Paavo Nurmi. This stood as a world record for thirteen years.
Her career came to an abrupt end in September 1984 when she was suspended for 18 months for refusing to undertake a drugs test after winning a 1,500m race in 3:58.63 in Paris.
Apart from her sports achievements, Kazankina is known for her scientific works. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Leningrad State University in 1975. Later she defended her dissertation for the Candidate of Pedagogical Science degree at the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education and worked as a lecturer until 1997. She is the author of more than 20 scientific works.
Kazankina lives in Saint Petersburg where she worked at the State Committee of Physical Culture and Tourism of Russian Federation.
In 2023, she criticized the International Olympic Committee for requiring Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and called "absurd" the idea of them condemning the "special military operation".[1]
^Казанкина назвала неприемлемыми условия МОК по допуску российских спортсменов
1980. Only three athletes have defended the Olympic 1500 m title: TatyanaKazankina became the first person to win two gold medals in the event in 1980...
Jamal of Bahrain was advanced to gold, the silver medal was awarded to Tatyana Tomashova of Russia, and the bronze medal was awarded to Abeba Aregawi...
feminine counterpart is Kazankina. It may refer to Alexander Kazankin (1900–1955), Soviet military commander TatyanaKazankina (born 1951), Russian middle-distance...
third woman in history to do the 800 m and 1,500 m double (after Tatyana Kazankina of the Soviet Union in 1976 and Svetlana Masterkova of Russia in 1996)...
other events. Similar allegations were made about a favorable call aiding Tatyana Kolpakova in the women's long jump. 1980 World Championships in Athletics...
1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1951 – TatyanaKazankina, Russian runner 1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor 1954 – Sergejus...
7 5:28.69 Maricica Puică Romania 11 July 1986 London 7 8 5:28.72 TatyanaKazankina Soviet Union 4 August 1984 Moscow 9 5:29.42 Dibaba #3 26 June 2014...
Records Preceded by TatyanaKazankina Women's 1,500m European record holder 5 October 2019 – present Succeeded by Incumbent Preceded by Svetlana Masterkova...
all time, behind Qu Yunxia, Jiang Bo, Lang Yinglai, Wang Junxia, TatyanaKazankina, Yin Lili and Paula Ivan. At the 1998 World Junior Championships she...
Sportswoman of the Year 1977 Succeeded by Marita Koch Preceded by TatyanaKazankina Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year 1977 Succeeded by Marita...
000m Best Year Performance 1982 Succeeded by Zola Budd Preceded by TatyanaKazankina Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1985 Succeeded by Olga Bondarenko...
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