About Olga Mineyeva
Born 1952. Olga Mineyeva is a Russian athletics competitor.
Olga Pavlovna Mineyeva, née Syrovatskaya, (; 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.
At the same championships she was a member of the bronze medal-winning Soviet team in the 400 metres relay.
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Who is Olga Mineyeva?
Soviet athlete
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Olga Mineyeva was born on 1 October 1952 in Degtyarsk.
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Olga Mineyeva is an athletics competitor.
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Olga Mineyeva is Russian.
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