About Olga Kuragina
Born 1959. Olga Kuragina is a Russian athletics competitor, pentathlete and track and field coach.
Olga Vitalyevna Kuragina (; born 21 April 1959) is a former Soviet track and field athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon. Married name 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.
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Who is Olga Kuragina?
Soviet pentathlete
When was Olga Kuragina born?
Olga Kuragina was born on 21 April 1959 in Kirov.
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Olga Kuragina is an athletics competitor, pentathlete and track and field coach.
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Olga Kuragina is Russian.
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