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Olga Mineyeva Personal information Born October 1, 1952 Medal recordWomen's Athletics Competitor for the 
Soviet UnionOlympic Games Silver 1980 Moscow 800 metres European Championships Gold 1982 Athens 800 metres Olga Pavlovna Mineyeva (Russian: Ольга Павловна Минеева; born October 1, 1952 in Degtyarsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Soviet athlete, who competed for the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia. There she won the silver medal in the 800 metres in 1:54.81 minutes, splitting team mates Nadezhda Olizarenko and Tatyana Providokhina for a Soviet cleansweep of the medals. She also won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics, finishing with a time of 1:55.41 at the event in Athens.[1]
References
- ^ Mineyeva Olga Biography. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-05-30.
European Champions in Women's 800 m 1954: Nina Otkalenko (URS) • 1958: Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS) • 1962: Gerda Kraan (NED) • 1966: Vera Nikolić (YUG) • 1969: Lillian Board (GBR) • 1971: Vera Nikolić (YUG) • 1974: Lilyana Tomova (BUL) • 1978: Tatyana Providokhina (URS) • 1982: Olga Mineyeva (URS) • 1986: Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) • 1990: Sigrun Wodars (GDR) • 1994: Lyubov Gurina (RUS) • 1998: Yelena Afanasyeva (RUS) • 2002: Jolanda Čeplak (SLO) • 2006: Olga Kotlyarova (RUS) • 2010: Mariya Savinova (RUS)
Categories:- 1952 births
- Living people
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Middle distance runners
- Soviet athletes
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs
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