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Olga Mineyeva

1952 - Today

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Olga Pavlovna Mineyeva (Russian: Ольга Павловна Минеева; born September 1, 1952, in Degtyarsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Soviet athlete, who competed for the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia. There she won the silver medal in the 800 metres in 1:54.81 minutes, splitting teammates Nadezhda Olizarenko and Tatyana Providokhina for a Soviet clean sweep of the medals. She also won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics, finishing with a time of 1:55.41 at the event in Athens. At the same championships she was a member of the bronze medal winning Soviet team in the 400 metres relay. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Mineyeva is the 2,066th most popular athlete (up from 2,111th in 2019), the 2,389th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,519th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Olga Mineyeva ranks 2,066 out of 6,025Before her are Barbara Sobotta, Igor Nikulin, George Campbell, Janet Simpson, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, and Mór Kóczán. After her are Fiona May, Gwen Torrence, Lajos Rácz, Roberta, Bjarne Andersson, and Wolfgang Hanisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Olga Mineyeva ranks 596Before her are Debbie Meyer, Jamil Hasanli, Dennis Boutsikaris, Antônio Silva, António Lima Pereira, and Pierluigi Marzorati. After her are Lajos Rácz, Jörgen Augustsson, Soslan Andiyev, Hasse Backe, Susan Seidelman, and César Cueto.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Mineyeva ranks 2,389 out of 3,761Before her are Oleg Zhakov (1905), Igor Korobov (1956), Eugene Roshal (1972), Igor Nikulin (1960), Kostya Tszyu (1969), and Mikhail Anikushin (1917). After her are Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Aleksandr Bashirov (1955), Valeriya (1968), Soslan Andiyev (1952), Larisa Lazutina (1965), and Boris Berezovsky (1969).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Olga Mineyeva ranks 104Before her are Natalya Sokolova (1949), Antonina Lazareva (1941), Yevgeni Mayorov (1938), Aleksey Spiridonov (1951), Yelena Romanova (1963), and Igor Nikulin (1960). After her are Nikolai Puchkov (1930), Valentina Sidorova (1954), Viktor Markin (1957), Rudolf Povarnitsyn (1962), Nikolay Zimyatov (1955), and Nikolay Kruglov (1950).