Yelisaveta Bagriantseva

Yelisaveta Petrovna Bagryantseva (, 27 August 1929 – 24 January 1996) was a Russian discus thrower who won a silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Bagryantseva was born in a Siberian salt-mining town and first trained in cross-country skiing. She changed to discus throw only when she moved to Novosibirsk to study at the Novosibirsk College of Physical Education. She graduated in 1941, and until 1949 worked as a physical education teacher in Irkutsk. She then moved to Moscow to continue her sports studies at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education, and the same year won silver medals at the national championships and at the World Student Games. She won two more silver medals, at the 1951 World Student Games and 1952 Olympics.