Olha Bryzhina
Olha Bryzhina (Ukrainian: Ольга Бризгіна, maiden name Olga Arkad'evna Vladykina; Russian: Ольга Аркадьевна Владыкина; born June 30, 1963 in Krasnokamsk, Perm Oblast) is a retired athlete who represented Soviet Union (until 1991) and later Ukraine. She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2012).[1] Bryzhina also became world champion in 1987.
Bryzhina successfully defeated Flo-Jo at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the 4 × 400 m relay. Both runners ran the final leg of the relay and took the baton at about the same time. Flo-Jo ran a well paced race chasing Bryzhina closely, and then Flo-Jo tried to challenge Bryzhina at the 300m point. However, the challenge from Flo-Jo was unsuccessful and Bryzhina won by a 4m margin taking gold for Soviet Union along with a new world record for the USSR team. Bryzhina's time of 47.7 seconds in the 1988 Olympic Relay is one of the fastest relay legs ever run by a Women in the history of track and field.
Bryzhina's 400m personal best of 48.27 seconds is the Woman's 4th best result of all time in a laned 400m race.[2][3][4] She achieved this in the same race that Marita Koch set the current 400m world record of 47.60 seconds on 6 October 1985 at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra (Australia).[3][4]
Bryzhina's husband Viktor Bryzhin was also a champion track athlete winning gold in the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1988 Olympics. Together they have a daughter Yelizaveta Bryzhina[5][6][7] who is also a successful track runner specialising in the 200m sprint event (Yelizaveta competes for Ukraine).
Bryzhina and her daughter Yelizaveta both have a best performance of 22.44 seconds over 200m as at Dec 2012.[8][9]
Personal bests
Achievements
References
- ↑ "Athletics - World Record progression" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved September 12, 2006.
- 1 2 3 IAAF profile for Olga Bryzgina
- 1 2 2012 Olympic Games Statistics - Women’s 400m, Athletics Weekly
- 1 2 START LIST 400 Metres Women - Round 1, Daegu 2011 (27 August 2011)
- ↑ Romanization of Russian differs from Romanization of Ukrainian
- ↑ Russia dominates on day of upsets in Bergen - European Team Champs Day 2, International Association of Athletics Federations (June 21, 2010)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Єлизавета Бризгіна: Головне — не участь, а перемога, Ukrayina Moloda (July 23, 2010)
- ↑ Chris Tomlinson secures European long jump bronze, BBC (August 1, 2010)
- ↑ Lewis-Francis accepts blame for 4x100m relay disaster, BBC (July 31, 2010)
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- 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
- 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goyshchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
- 1984: United States (Leatherwood, S. Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough, Dixon, D. Howard)
- 1988: Soviet Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina, Dzhigalova)
- 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
- 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
- 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
- 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Robinson)
- 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
- 2012: United States (Trotter, Felix, McCorory, Richards-Ross, Baker, Dixon)
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