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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.
May 10, 2013 · Kazankina had alreday sliced an astonishing 5.4 seconds off of the previous 1500m WR 4 years previously in 1976,and another second off of that time earlier i...
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Montreal, Olympic Games, Olympic Stadium, 27 July 1976, 18.20 Hr: 800m women final1. Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 1:54.942. Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) 1:55.423. Elfi...
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Tatyana Kazankina is a former Soviet Union athlete who won three Olympic gold medals in middle-distance events. She also held world records in the 800m, 1500m and 3000m, and competed in the 1975 and 1982 World Cross Country Championships.
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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.
