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Olga Kuragina

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Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina (Russian: Ольга Витальевна Курагина; born 21 April 1959) is a former Soviet track and field athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon. She is also known as Olga Nemogayeva. She competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, in the Pentathlon where she won the bronze medal behind team mates Nadiya Tkachenko and Olga Rukavishnikova for a Soviet clean sweep in the last Olympic pentathlon competition, after 1980 the women competed in the heptathlon event instead. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Kuragina is the 3,740th most popular athlete (down from 3,566th in 2024), the 3,065th most popular biography from Russia (up from 3,089th in 2019) and the 220th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Olga Kuragina ranks 3,740 out of 6,025. Before her are Corinne Niogret, Ryszard Sobczak, Sheila Echols, Jack Robinson, Gao Min, and Simone Niggli-Luder. After her are Li Yanfeng, Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth, Viktor Röthlin, Lucie Décosse, Scott Moir, and Charles Kamathi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Olga Kuragina ranks 766. Before her are Roger Goodell, Neena Gupta, Marc Cohn, Ana Mato, Stan Van Gundy, and Jack Abramoff. After her are Brian Williams, Eddie Johnson, Romeo Zondervan, Fred Couples, Joseph R. Gannascoli, and Carolyn McCormick.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Kuragina ranks 3,065 out of 3,761. Before her are Aleksandr Samokutyayev (1970), Olga Seryabkina (1985), Vladimir Efimkin (1981), Tatyana Tomashova (1975), Nina Gavrylyuk (1965), and Zabit Magomedsharipov (1991). After her are Aleksandr Filimonov (1973), Oksana Grishina (1968), Maria Stepanova (1979), Irina Khabarova (1966), Vladislav Radimov (1975), and Sergei Ovchinnikov (1970).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Olga Kuragina ranks 220. Before her are Larisa Peleshenko (1964), Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (1979), Svetlana Shkolina (1986), Yelena Ruzina (1964), Sergey Klyugin (1974), and Tatyana Tomashova (1975). After her are Juri Kashkarov (1963), Sergey Kirdyapkin (1980), German Titov (1965), Yelena Afanasyeva (1967), Svetlana Petcherskaia (1968), and Elena Khrustaleva (1980).

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