Olga Mineyeva
Soviet athlete
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Olga Pavlovna Mineyeva, née Syrovatskaya, (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 teammates 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] At the same championships she was a member of the bronze medal winning Soviet team in the 400 metres relay.
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