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Natalya Lisovskaya
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women’s Athletics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1988 Seoul | Shot Put | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1987 Rome | Shot Put | |
| Silver | 1991 Tokyo | Shot Put | |
| European Championships | |||
| Silver | 1990 Split | Shot Put | |
Natalya Lisovskaya (Russian: Наталья Лисовская) (born July 16, 1962) is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow.
She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where she won the gold medal. Lisovskaya holds the world record in the women's shot put with a throw of 22.63 meters, which she achieved on June 7th, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She also has the four farthest throws of all time by a female shot putter.
Lisovskaya is married to men's hammer world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and has one daughter, Alexia. They live in Paris, France.
| Olympic champions in women's shot put |
|---|
| 1948: Micheline Ostermeyer | 1952: Galina Zybina | 1956: Tamara Tyshkevich | 1960: Tamara Press | 1964: Tamara Press | 1968: Margitta Gummel | 1972: Nadezhda Chizhova | 1976: Ivanka Hristova | 1980: Ilona Slupianek | 1984: Claudia Losch | 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya | 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova | 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss | 2000: Yanina Korolchik | 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá |
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