Lyudmila Bragina

Lyudmila Bragina

Lyudmila Bragina in 1972
Personal information
Born	24 July 1943 (age 72) Sverdlovsk, Russia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	1500 m, 3000 m
Club	Dynamo Krasnodar
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	1500 m – 4:01.38 (1972) 3000 m – 8:27.12 (1976)
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1972 Munich 1500 m European Championships 1974 Rome 3000 m

Lyudmila Ivanovna Bragina (Russian: Людмила Ивановна Брагина, born 24 July 1943) is a retired Russian middle distance runner. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1500 m at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics; she won the event in 1972 and finished fifth in 1976. In July 1972 she set a new 1500 m world record at the Soviet championships, and then progressively improved it in round 1, semifinal and final of the 1972 Olympics.^[1][2] The same year she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. She also set three world records in the 3000 m, in 1972, 1974 and 1976.^[3] At the European Championships, Bragina won four silver medals: in the 3,000 m outdoors (1974), and in the 800 m (1970) and 1,500 m indoors (1971–72).^[1]

In 1960 Bragina started training in the high jump, and changed to running only in 1964. Born with weak lungs in the cold Urals, she had a career-threatening bout of pneumonia in 1966. After recovering she moved to the south of Russia, in Krasnodar,^[4] where she later worked as an athletics coach.^[1]

References

1. Lyudmila Bragina. sports-reference.com
2. "Athletics – World Record progression" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
3. "World and European Record Progression". Athletix.org. Archived from the original on 25 June 2013.
4. Брагина, Людмила Ивановна. sportlegend.kulichki.net

External links

• (Russian) Biography