Olga Mineyeva

Olga Mineyeva

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Born	September 1, 1952[1][2]
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 800 metres European Championships 1982 Athens 800 metres

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 team mates 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.^[1]

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