Olga Kuragina
Soviet pentathlete
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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. Married name Olga Nemogayeva.[1]
BornOlga Vitalyevna Kuragina
21 April 1959
21 April 1959
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
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| Born | Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina 21 April 1959 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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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.[2]
