Name Olga Mineyeva | Role Olympic athlete | |
Olympic medals Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres | ||
Olga Pavlovna Mineyeva (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 team mates 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.
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