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Lyudmila Bragina

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Lyudmila Ivanovna Bragina (Russian: Людмила Ивановна Брагина, born 24 July 1943) is a retired Soviet and Russian middle distance runner. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1500 m at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics; she won the event in 1972 and finished fifth in 1976. In July 1972 she set a new 1500 m world record of 4:06.9, at the Soviet championships, and then progressively improved it in round 1 (4:06.47), the semi-finals (4:05.07), and the final (4:01.38), of the 1972 Olympics. The same year she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Bragina is the 453rd most popular athlete (up from 455th in 2019), the 1,402nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,621st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lyudmila Bragina ranks 453 out of 6,025Before her are Gordon George Avery, Olavi Mannonen, Ed Hamm, Karl-Erik Nilsson, Hallgeir Brenden, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam. After her are Harri Larva, Virgilijus Alekna, Anatoly Khrapaty, Wolfgang Nordwig, Toivo Hyytiäinen, and Luigi Carpaneda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Lyudmila Bragina ranks 365Before her are Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Ottavio Bianchi, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Valerie Thomas, Ling Liong Sik, and Éva Marton. After her are Maceo Parker, Wolfgang Nordwig, Jon Postel, Terry Venables, Juan Giménez, and Joe Haldeman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Bragina ranks 1,402 out of 3,761Before her are Olavi Mannonen (1930), Oleg Gazmanov (1951), Edwin Linkomies (1894), Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Yury Glazkov (1939), and Apollon Maykov (1821). After her are Alexander Petrov (1799), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Igor Sechin (1960).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Lyudmila Bragina ranks 23Before her are Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Pavel Lednyov (1943), Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), and Olavi Mannonen (1930). After her are Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Boris Melnikov (1938), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Alexander Ragulin (1941), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), and Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937).