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Tatyana Kazankina

1951 - Today

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Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (Russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in Petrovsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the Olympic Games for the Soviet Union. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tatyana Kazankina is the 417th most popular athlete (down from 256th in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,297th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 417 out of 6,025. Before her are Tamás Mendelényi, Veikko Hakulinen, Milka Babović, Julius Skutnabb, Imre Harangi, and Edward Gardère. After her are Victor Willems, Johnny Hayes, Durward Knowles, Lee Haney, Bernd Kannenberg, and José Villanueva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 265. Before her are Shigefumi Mori, Kim Young-ae, David Johnson, André Aciman, Lee Nak-yeon, and Michael Freedman. After her are Mario Boljat, Gordon Liu, Charles E. Brady Jr., Bill Bryson, Ana Belén, and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr..

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 1,335 out of 3,761. Before her are Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Teuvo Aura (1912), Irina Solovyova (1937), Alexander Protopopov (1866), Alexandra Zabelina (1937), and Mikhail Isakovsky (1900). After her are Pavel Chistyakov (1832), Alexander Ovechkin (1985), Khariton Laptev (1700), Anton Delvig (1798), Alexander Gelfond (1906), and Vladimir Potanin (1961).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 17. Before her are Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Galina Zybina (1931), Sergey Litvinov (1958), and Veikko Hakulinen (1925). After her are Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Pavel Lednyov (1943), Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Olavi Mannonen (1930), and Lyudmila Bragina (1943).

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