- Vera Bryndzei
Vera Vladimirovna Bryndzei ( _ru. Вера Владимировна Брындзей) (born
25 January 1952 ) is a former speed skater who competed for theSoviet Union .Skating for Dynamo
Kiev , Vera Bryndzei won a silver medal at the Soviet Sprint Championships in 1975. One week earlier, she had finished seventh at the Soviet Allround Championships. She would eventually win two more national medals, both at the Soviet Allround Championships: silver in 1977 and bronze in 1978.Bryndzei made her first international appearance in 1976 at the World Allround Championships in
Gjøvik where she finished 16th. Her only international success came the next year when Bryndzei became the 1977 World Allround Champion in Keystone. She also participated in the World Sprint Championships two weeks later, finishing 23rd. In 1978, Bryndzei did not successfully defend her World Champion title, finishing in a disappointing 14th place. At the1980 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid, she competed in the 1,500 m, resulting in an 18th place.Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the "WR" column lists the official world records on the dates that Bryndzei skated her personal records.
Note that the 5,000 m was suspended as a world record event at the 1955 ISU (
International Skating Union ) Congress and was reinstated at the 1982 ISU Congress.Bryndzei has an
Adelskalender score of 181.847 points.References
* [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/110 Vera Bryndzei at SkateResults.com]
* [http://www.desg.de/skater.php?anzeige=skater&skater=2692 Vera Bryndzei] . "Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V." (German Skating Association).
* [http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=BRINDZEJ&fname=Vera&nat=URS&lm=l Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
* [http://web.telia.com/~u46130641/adel.htm Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages]
* [http://www.speedskating.ru/en/stat.html Results of Championships of Russia and the USSR from SpeedSkating.ru]
* [http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,4844-181536-198754-94643-0-file,00.pdf Historical World Records] . "International Skating Union".
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