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Tatyana Kazankina
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| Medal record | |||
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| Women’s Athletics | |||
Competitor for  Soviet Union |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1976 Montreal | 800 m | |
| Gold | 1976 Montreal | 1500 m | |
| Gold | 1980 Moscow | 1500 m | |
| World Championships | |||
| Bronze | 1983 Helsinki | 3000 m | |
Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (Russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина) (born on December 17, 1951 in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR) was a Soviet/Russian runner who set seven world records and won a total of three golden medals at the Olympic Games. She was also awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik.
A month before the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 improving Ludmila Bragina's world record by 5.4 seconds. She won the 1500 m and 800 m golds in the Montreal games, setting a world record in the latter. In 1980, she ran the 1500 m in 3:52.47 becoming the first woman to run the distance faster than Paavo Nurmi. This stood as a world record for thirteen years, and remains a European record. Her career came to an abrupt end in September 1984 when she was suspended for 18 months for refusing to undertake a drugs test after a 5000 m race in Paris.
Apart from her sports achievements Kazankina is known for her scientific works. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Leningrad State University in 1975. Later she defended her dissertation for the Candidate of Pedagogical Science degree at the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education and worked as a lecturer until 1997. She is the author of more than 20 scientific works.
As of 2004 she lived in Saint Petersburg and worked at the State Committee of Physical Culture and Tourism of Russian Federation.
L. Yu. Leonidov (1982). Tatiana Kazankina, Heroes of the Olympic Games (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.
- (English) Tatyana Kazankina at Encyclopædia Britannica
- (English) Almost Forgotten Star: Interview with Tatiana Kazankina
- (Russian) Detailed biography
| Records | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Valentina Gerasimova |
Women's 800 metres World Record Holder 1976-07-26 – 1980-06-12 |
Succeeded by Nadezhda Olizarenko |
| Preceded by Svetlana Ulmasova |
Women's 3,000 m World Record Holder August 26, 1984 – September 12, 1993 |
Succeeded by Zhang Linli |
| Sporting positions | ||
| Preceded by Unknown |
Women's 800 m Best Year Performance 1976 |
Succeeded by Ileana Silai |
| Preceded by Unknown |
Women's 1,500 m Best Year Performance 1976 |
Succeeded by Natalia Marasescu |
Preceded by Totka Petrova |
Women's 1,500 m Best Year Performance 1980 |
Succeeded by Olga Dvirna |
| Preceded by Svetlana Ulmasova |
Women's 3,000 m Best Year Performance 1983 – 1984 |
Succeeded by Mary Slaney |
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| 1928: Lina Radke • 1960: Lyudmila Shevtsova • 1964: Ann Packer • 1968: Madeline Manning • 1972: Hildegard Falck • 1976: Tatyana Kazankina • 1980: Nadezhda Olizarenko • 1984: Doina Melinte • 1988: Sigrun Wodars • 1992: Ellen van Langen • 1996: Svetlana Masterkova • 2000: Maria Mutola • 2004: Kelly Holmes |
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