- Marina Shmonina
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Marina Shmonina (born 9 February 1965 in Toshkent) is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Uzbekistan. She specialized in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.
She competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the heats of the relay competition. When the team of Yelena Ruzina, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova and Olga Bryzgina won the final, Shmonina was also awarded the gold medal. Shmonina was hailed in Uzbekistan as the first Uzbek athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. [1]
Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes Representing Soviet Union
1989 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 5th 400 m European Indoor Championships The Hague, Netherlands 2nd 400 m 1990 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, Scotland 1st 400 m European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 7th 400 m Goodwill Games Seattle, United States 7th 400 m 1st 4x400 m relay 1991 World Indoor Championships Seville, Spain 2nd 4x400 m relay Representing Unified Team
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 1st 4x400 m relay References
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay - 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
- 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goistchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
- 1984: United States (Leatherwood, Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough)
- 1988: Sovie Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina)
- 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
- 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
- 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
- 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Cox, Robinson)
- 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- Sprinters
- Soviet athletes
- Uzbekistani athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic athletes of the Unified Team
- People from Tashkent
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics biography stubs
- Asian athletics biography stubs
- Uzbekistani sportspeople stubs
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