- Olga Kuragina
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Olympic medal record Women’s Track and Field Competitor for Soviet Union Bronze 1980 Moscow Pentathlon Olga Kuragina is a Soviet 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:- Pentathletes
- Soviet athletes
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs
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