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Soviet sprinter
Mariya Pinigina
Mariya Pinigina in 2019
Birth name Mariya Kulchunova Born 9 February 1958 (1958-02-09 ) (age 66)
Ivanovka ,
Kyrgyz SSR
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 ] .
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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 )