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Galina Bystrova

1934 - 1999

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Galina Petrovna Bystrova (née Dolzhenkova; Russian: Галина Петровна Быстрова; 8 February 1934 – 11 October 1999) was a Soviet athlete. She competed in the 80 m hurdles at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics with the best achievement of fourth place in 1956. In 1964 she also took part in the newly introduced pentathlon event and won a bronze medal. She also won three European titles, two in the pentathlon (1958 and 1962) and one in the hurdles (1958) and set three world records in these events. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Galina Bystrova is the 588th most popular athlete (down from 412th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Galina Bystrova ranks 588 out of 6,025. Before her are Gheorghe Berceanu, Paavo Johansson, Marc Wright, Teodor Koskenniemi, Ioannis Persakis, and Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Eventing. After her are James Juvenal, Frederick Lorz, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Ingrid Gulbin, Roger Beaufrand, and Don Bragg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Galina Bystrova ranks 312. Before her are Susan George, Gleb Panfilov, Phan Văn Khải, Roy Kerr, Nikolai Slichenko, and Marc Rich. After her are Lyudmila Shevtsova, Dick Boushka, Hamit Kaplan, Ole Madsen, Eva-Maria Hagen, and Jacek Kuroń. Among people deceased in 1999, Galina Bystrova ranks 174. Before her are Vivian Fuchs, Alfred Bickel, Lee Falk, Horst Frank, Carlos Hathcock, and Josef Zeman. After her are Robert Mills, Taheyya Kariokka, Josefina Pla, Charles Crichton, Rafael Iglesias, and Annibale Frossi.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Galina Bystrova ranks 86 out of 232. Before her are Molla Panah Vagif (1717), Anar Rzayev (1938), Aliagha Shikhlinski (1863), Artem Alikhanian (1908), Ayna Sultanova (1895), and Sakina Akhundzadeh (1865). After her are Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (1969), Natallia Arsiennieva (1903), Aydin Ibrahimov (1938), Georges Candilis (1913), Mirza Alakbar Sabir (1862), and Abraham Alikhanov (1904).

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Among ATHLETES In Azerbaijan

Among athletes born in Azerbaijan, Galina Bystrova ranks 1. After her are Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili (1933), Liu Hong (null), Zemfira Meftahatdinova (1963), Ramil Guliyev (1990), Malik Beyleroğlu (1970), Orkhan Safarov (1991), Hasrat Jafarov (2002), Nijat Rahimov (1993), Nazim Babayev (1997), Islam Abbasov (null), and Samir Mammadov (1988).

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