Olga Kuragina

Olga Kuragina
Personal information
BornOlga Vitalyevna Kuragina
(1959-04-21) 21 April 1959
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow Pentathlon

Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina (Russian: Ольга Витальевна Курагина; born 21 April 1959) is a former Soviet track and field athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon. Married name Olga Nemogayeva.[1]

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 Nadiya 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Olga NEMOGAYEVA". worldathletics.org. 1 January 1996. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Kuragina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.