Name Tatyana Prorochenko | Role Olympic athlete | |
Olympic medals Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay Similar People Linsey MacDonald, Donna Hartley, Marita Koch, Joslyn Hoyte‑Smith | ||
Tatyana Prorochenko (Russian: Татьяна Пророченко, Ukrainian: Тетяна Пророченко) (born March 15, 1952 in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Prorochenko trained at VSS Kolos in Zaporizhia. She competed for the USSR in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 100 metres where she won a bronze medal with her teammates Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Anisimova and Natalya Bochina.
She returned to the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow this time moving up to the 4 x 400 metres where she won the Gold medal with her teammates Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Zyuskova and Irina Nazarova.
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