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| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Athletics | ||
Representing the  Soviet Union
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1976 Montreal | 800 m |
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1976 Montreal | 1500 m |
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1980 Moscow | 1500 m |
| World Championships | ||
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1983 Helsinki | 3000 m |
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. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik.
A month before the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 m in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 beating Ludmila Bragina's world record by 5.4 seconds. She won the 1500 m and 800 m golds in the Montreal games, setting a world record in the latter. In 1980, she ran the 1500 m in 3:52.47, becoming the first woman to run the distance faster than Paavo Nurmi. This stood as a world record for thirteen years.
Her career came to an abrupt end in September 1984 when she was suspended for 18 months for refusing to undertake a drugs test after winning a 1,500m race in 3:58.63 in Paris.
Apart from her sports achievements, Kazankina is known for her scientific works. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Leningrad State University in 1975. Later she defended her dissertation for the Candidate of Pedagogical Science degree at the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education and worked as a lecturer until 1997. She is the author of more than 20 scientific works.
Kazankina lives in Saint Petersburg where she worked at the State Committee of Physical Culture and Tourism of Russian Federation.
In 2023, she criticized the International Olympic Committee for requiring Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and called "absurd" the idea of them condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
See also
References
- L. Yu. Leonidov (1982). Tatiana Kazankina. Heroes of the Olympic Games (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-05-02.
External links
- Almost Forgotten Star: Interview with Tatiana Kazankina
- Detailed biography (in Russian)
- http://www.alltime-athletics.com/w_1500no.htm
| Records | ||
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| Preceded by Valentina Gerasimova
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Women's 800 metres World Record Holder 26 July 1976 – 12 June 1980 |
Succeeded by Nadezhda Olizarenko
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| Preceded by Ludmila Bragina
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Women's 1,500 m World Record Holder 28 June 1976 – 11 September 1993 |
Succeeded by Qu Yunxia
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| Preceded by Svetlana Ulmasova
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Women's 3,000 m World Record Holder 26 August 1984 – 12 September 1993 |
Succeeded by Zhang Linli
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| Sporting positions | ||
| Preceded by Svetlana Ulmasova
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Women's 3,000 m Best Year Performance 1983 – 1984 |
Succeeded by Mary Slaney
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| Awards | ||
| Preceded by Faina Melnik
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Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year 1976 |
Succeeded by Rosemarie Ackermann
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| Olympic champions in women's 800 metres | |
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| IAAF World / Continental Cup champions in women's 1500 metres | |
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople
- Doping cases in athletics
- World record setters in athletics (track and field)
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- People from Petrovsk
- Soviet female middle-distance runners
- Russian female middle-distance runners
- Soviet sportspeople in doping cases
- Russian sportspeople in doping cases
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade
- Friendship Games medalists in athletics
- Sportspeople from Saratov Oblast
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Russian sportswomen