Nadezhda Olizarenko

Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	1980 Moscow	800 metres
Bronze	1980 Moscow	1500 metres
Summer Universiade
Gold	1979 Mexico City	800 metres
European Championships
Gold	1986 Stuttgart	800 metres

Nadezhda Fyodorovna Olizarenko (Russian: Надежда Фёдоровна Олизаренко; born 28 November 1953 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a retired athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.

Olizarenko competed for Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia in the 800 metres, where she won the gold medal ahead of country women Olga Mineyeva and Tatyana Providokhina for a Soviet clean sweep of the medals. This added to the bronze medal she won in the 1500 metres at the same games.

In 1980 Olizarenko set a world record and also her personal best over 800 metres with 1:53.43; this record stood until 1983, when it was bettered by Jarmila Kratochvílová. As of 2010^[update], it is still the all-time number two mark in women's 800 metres. She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics.

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Records
Preceded by Tatyana Kazankina	Women's 800 metres World Record Holder 1980-06-12 – 1983-07-26	Succeeded by Jarmila Kratochvílová

Persondata
Name	Olizarenko, Nadezhda
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Date of birth	1953-11-28
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