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Tatyana Kazankina

1951 - Today

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Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (Russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet/Russian former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik. A month before the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 m in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 beating Ludmila Bragina's world record by 5.4 seconds. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Tatyana Kazankina is the 256th most popular athlete (up from 330th in 2019), the 1,297th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,474th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 256 out of 6,025. Before her are Dragutin Šurbek, Ilmari Salminen, Terry Fox, Asafa Powell, Giulio Gaudini, and Dominik Hašek. After her are Erik Lundqvist, John Ljunggren, Frederick Lorz, Ben Adams, Robert Kerr, and Peter Snell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 223. Before her are Klaus Toppmöller, Kent Nagano, Viviane Reding, Rosa Montero, Catherine Hicks, and David Vunagi. After her are Gordon Liu, Natsuo Kirino, Corey Yuen, Oleg Gazmanov, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Bernie Marsden.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 1,297 out of 3,761. Before her are Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), and Ivan Aksakov (1823). After her are Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Alexey Troitsky (1866), Vadim Krasnoselsky (1970), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev (1290), and Vladimir Steklov (1864).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Tatyana Kazankina ranks 14. Before her are Viktor Mamatov (1937), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Galina Zybina (1931), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), and Natalya Lisovskaya (1962). After her are Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Vladimir Melanin (1933), Sergey Litvinov (1958), Alexander Ragulin (1941), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), and Renate Boy (1939).

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