Mariya Pinigina
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Birth name | Mariya Kulchunova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 9 February 1958 (1958-02-09) (age 66) Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (Russian: Мария Джумабаевна Пинигина, née Kulchunova; born 9 February 1958 in Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR) is a former Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres, training at Spartak in Kyiv. She represented the Soviet Union.
Pinigina competed for USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya, 400m bronze medalist Olga Nazarova and olympic 400m champion Olga Bryzgina. That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten.[1]
She also won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics.
In November 2013, she served as one of the torch bearers in Yakutsk for the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay.[2]
Mariya Pinigina is married to Olympic wrestling champion Pavel Pinigin[citation needed].
References
- ^ "Athletics - World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 September 2006.
- ^ "Sochi 2014 Torch Relay braves record low temperatures". Olympic.org. 11 November 2013.
Torchbearers in Yakutsk included ... Seoul 1988 athletics gold medallist Maria Pinigina
External links
- Mariya Pinigina at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Mariya Pinigina at World Athletics
- Mariya Pinigina at Olympics.com
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- 1972:
Dagmar Käsling, Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler, Monika Zehrt (GDR)
- 1976:
Doris Maletzki, Brigitte Rohde, Ellen Streidt, Christina Brehmer (GDR)
- 1980:
Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Zyuskova, Irina Nazarova (URS)
- 1984:
Lillie Leatherwood, Sherri Howard, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Chandra Cheeseborough, Diane Dixon, Denean Howard (USA)
- 1988:
Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olha Bryzhina, Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova (URS)
- 1992:
Yelena Ruzina, Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova, Olga Nazarova, Olha Bryzhina, Liliya Nurutdinova, Marina Shmonina (EUN)
- 1996:
Rochelle Stevens, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Kim Graham, Jearl Miles, Linetta Wilson (USA)
- 2000:
Jearl Miles Clark, Monique Hennagan, LaTasha Colander, Andrea Anderson (USA)
- 2004:
DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards, Monique Hennagan, Moushaumi Robinson (USA)
- 2008:
Mary Wineberg, Allyson Felix, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards, Natasha Hastings (USA)
- 2012:
DeeDee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory, Sanya Richards-Ross, Keshia Baker, Diamond Dixon (USA)
- 2016:
Allyson Felix, Phyllis Francis, Natasha Hastings, Courtney Okolo, Taylor Ellis-Watson, Francena McCorory (USA)
- 2020:
Sydney McLaughlin, Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, Athing Mu, Kaylin Whitney, Wadeline Jonathas, Kendall Ellis, Lynna Irby (USA)
- 2024:
Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabrielle Thomas, Alexis Holmes, Quanera Hayes, Aaliyah Butler, Kaylyn Brown (USA)
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