Irina Press

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Olympic medal record
Women's athletics
Gold Rome 1960 80m Hurdles
Gold Tokyo 1964 Pentathlon

Irina Natanovna Press (Russian: Ирина Натановна Пресс) (Mar 10, 1939, Kharkov - Feb 21, 2004) was a Ukrainian athlete who won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles (1960) and pentathlon (1964). She trained at VSS Trud and later at Dynamo.

Sisters Tamara and Irina Press won five track and field Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union and set 26 world records in the 1960s. Their careers suddenly ended when gender testing was introduced. [1]

Olympic champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon
As pentathlon: 1964: Irina Press | 1968: Ingrid Becker | 1972: Mary Peters | 1976: Siegrun Siegl | 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko
As heptathlon: 1984: Glynis Nunn | 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee| 1996: Ghada Shouaa | 2000: Denise Lewis | 2004: Carolina Klüft
Olympic champions in women's 80 m hurdles and 100 m hurdles
80 m hurdles: 1932: Babe Didrikson | 1936: Trebisonda Valla | 1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen | 1952: Shirley Strickland | 1956: Shirley Strickland | 1960: Irina Press | 1964: Karin Balzer | 1968: Maureen Caird
100 m hurdles: 1972: Annelie Ehrhardt | 1976: Johanna Schaller-Klier | 1980: Vera Komisova | 1984: Benita Fitzgerald-Brown | 1988: Yordanka Donkova | 1992: Voula Patoulidou | 1996: Ludmila Engquist | 2000: Olga Shishigina | 2004: Joanna Hayes
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