Olha Bryzhina

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Olha Bryzhina
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Olympic Games
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul 400 m
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul 4x400 m relay
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 4x400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 400 m
World Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1987 Rome 400 m
Gold medal – first place 1991 Tokyo 4x400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 1987 Rome 4x400 m relay

Olha Bryzhina (Ukrainian: Ольга Бризгіна, maiden name Olga Arkad'evna Vladykina; Russian: Ольга Аркадьевна Владыкина; born June 30, 1963 in Krasnokamsk, Perm Oblast) is a retired athlete who represented Soviet Union (until 1991) and later Ukraine. She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2012).[1] Bryzhina also became world champion in 1987.

Bryzhina successfully defeated Flo-Jo at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the 4 × 400 m relay. Both runners ran the final leg of the relay and took the baton at about the same time. Flo-Jo ran a well paced race chasing Bryzhina closely, and then Flo-Jo tried to challenge Bryzhina at the 300m point. However, the challenge from Flo-Jo was unsuccessful and Bryzhina won by a 4m margin taking gold for Soviet Union along with a new world record for the USSR team. Bryzhina's time of 47.7 seconds in the 1988 Olympic Relay is one of the fastest relay legs ever run by a Women in the history of track and field.

Bryzhina's 400m personal best of 48.27 seconds is the Woman's 4th best result of all time in a laned 400m race.[2][3][4] She achieved this in the same race that Marita Koch set the current 400m world record of 47.60 seconds on 6 October 1985 at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra (Australia).[3][4]

Bryzhina's husband Viktor Bryzhin was also a champion track athlete winning gold in the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1988 Olympics. Together they have a daughter Yelizaveta Bryzhina[5][6][7] who is also a successful track runner specialising in the 200m sprint event (Yelizaveta competes for Ukraine).

Bryzhina and her daughter Yelizaveta both have a best performance of 22.44 seconds over 200m as at Dec 2012.[8][9]

Personal bests

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Soviet Union
1985 World Cup Canberra, Australia 2nd 400 metres 48.27
1986 European Championships Stuttgart, Germany 2nd 400 metres 49.67
DISQ 4 × 400 m relay
1987 World Championships Rome, Italy 1st 400 metres 49.38
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:19.50
1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 1st 400 metres 48.65
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:15.17 WR
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 4th 400 metres 49.82
4 × 400 m relay 3:18.47
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 2nd 400 metres 49.05
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:20.20

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 IAAF profile for Olga Bryzgina
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 2012 Olympic Games Statistics - Women’s 400m, Athletics Weekly
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 START LIST 400 Metres Women - Round 1, Daegu 2011 (27 August 2011)
  5. ↑ Romanization of Russian differs from Romanization of Ukrainian
  6. ↑ Russia dominates on day of upsets in Bergen - European Team Champs Day 2, International Association of Athletics Federations (June 21, 2010)
  7. ↑ (Ukrainian) Єлизавета Бризгіна: Головне — не участь, а перемога, Ukrayina Moloda (July 23, 2010)
  8. ↑ Chris Tomlinson secures European long jump bronze, BBC (August 1, 2010)
  9. ↑ Lewis-Francis accepts blame for 4x100m relay disaster, BBC (July 31, 2010)

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