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Inna Yevseyeva

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Inna Yevseyeva
Personal information
Born14 August 1964 (1964-08-14) (age 60)
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing  Soviet Union
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1991 Sheffield 800 metres
Silver medal – second place 1991 Sheffield 4 x 400 metres relay
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Duisburg 800 metres
Representing  CIS
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1992 Genoa 800 metres

Inna Yevseyeva (Russian: Инна Евсеева; born 14 August 1964) is a retired middle-distance athlete who specialised in the 800 metres. She was born in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian SSR and represented the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the early 1990s, and then Ukraine. A two-time Olympian, Yevseyeva finished sixth in the 1988 Olympic 800 m final in Seoul and fourth in the 1992 Olympic 800 m final in Barcelona. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres with 1:56.0 on 4 July 1988 at a meet in Kharkov, which made her the fastest 800m woman in the world for 1988.

References

World University Games champions in women's 800 metres
World best yearly performance in women's 800 metres


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