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Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (Russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet/Russian former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the Olympic Games.
Tatyana Kazankina is a Soviet athlete who won three Olympic gold medals and set seven world records in women’s running events during the 1970s and ’80s. A seemingly fragile individual standing 1.61 metres (5 feet 3 inches) tall and weighing just 48 kg (106 pounds), Kazankina made an international.
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Tatyana Kazankina was the top female middle distance runner of the world at the end of the 1970s. She won three Olympic golds and set seven world records during her career. A month before the 1976 Olympics, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1,500 metres in under 4 minutes, clocking a world record of 3:56.0.
Tatyana Kazankina was a Soviet middle distance runner who won three Olympic golds and set seven world records in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first woman to run 1,500 metres in under 4 minutes and the European record holder at 1,500 metres for 13 years.
- Tatyana Vasilyevna•Kazankina (-Kovalenko)
- Female
- Competed in Olympic Games
- Tatyana•Kazankina
At 600 metres, Tatyana Kazankina was in sixth place but moved outside and started passing runners. Leading into the homestretch, she switched gears and won easily in a world record 1:54.94. The first four runners also surpassed Gerasimova’s world record in the fastest women’s 800 race ever run to that date.
- 23-26 July 1976
- Olympic
- 35 from 20 countries
Tatyana Kazankina was the defending champion and the world record holder in the 1,500 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in a world record time of 3:56.6, breaking her own record set in 1976.
Jul 30, 1976 · Kazankina reaches new heights in Montreal - Athletics. Few athletes headed to Canada in the summer of 1976 as strongly tipped for Olympic gold in their event as middle distance runner Tatyana Kazankina.
