Olha Bryzhina



































Olha Bryzhina
Personal information
Born
(1963-06-30) June 30, 1963 (age 55)
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country
 Soviet Union
 Ukraine
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 4 × 100m relay

Medal record














































Olympic Games
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul
400 m
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul
4x400 m relay
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona
4x400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona
400 m

World Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1987 Rome 400 m
Gold medal – first place 1991 Tokyo
4x400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 1987 Rome
4x400 m relay



Olha Bryzhina (Ukrainian: Ольга Бризгіна, maiden name Olga Arkad'evna Vladykina; Russian: Ольга Аркадьевна Владыкина; born June 30, 1963 in Krasnokamsk, Perm Oblast) is a retired athlete who represented Soviet Union (until 1991) and later Ukraine.




Contents






  • 1 Career


  • 2 Personal bests


  • 3 Achievements


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Career


She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2012[update]).[1] Bryzhina also became world champion in 1987.


Bryzhina successfully defeated Florence Griffith Joyner at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the 4 × 400 m relay. Both runners ran the final leg of the relay and took the baton at about the same time. "Flo-Jo" ran a well paced race, chasing Bryzhina closely, and tried to challenge Bryzhina at the 300m point. However, the challenge from Flo-Jo was unsuccessful and Bryzhina won by a 4m margin, taking gold for the Soviet Union along with a new world record for the USSR team. Bryzhina's time of 47.7 seconds in the 1988 Olympic relay is one of the fastest relay legs ever run by a woman in the history of track and field.


Bryzhina's 400m personal best of 48.27 seconds is the women's 4th best result of all time in a laned 400m race.[2][3][4] She achieved this in the same race that Marita Koch set the current 400m world record of 47.60 seconds on 6 October 1985 at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra (Australia).[3][4]


Bryzhina's husband Viktor Bryzhin was also a champion track athlete, winning gold in the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1988 Olympics. Together they have a daughters, Yelizaveta Bryzhina and Anastasiia Bryzgina,[5][6][7] who are also a successful track runners (competing for Ukraine).


Bryzhina and her daughter Yelizaveta both had a best performance of 22.44 seconds over 200m as of December 2012.[8][9]



Personal bests




  • 200 metres - 22.44 (1985)[2]


  • 400 metres - 48.27 (1985)[2]



Achievements





































































































Year
 Competition
 Venue
 Position
 Event
 Notes
Representing  Soviet Union
1984
Friendship Games
Prague, Czechoslovakia
 3rd
 400 m
49.52
1985
World Cup
Canberra, Australia
 2nd
 400 metres
 48.27
1986
European Championships
Stuttgart, Germany
 2nd
 400 metres
 49.67
DISQ
 4 × 400 m relay
1987
World Championships
Rome, Italy
 1st
 400 metres
49.38
2nd
 4 × 400 m relay
3:19.50
1988
Olympic Games
Seoul, South Korea
 1st
 400 metres
48.65
1st
 4 × 400 m relay
3:15.17 WR
1991
World Championships
Tokyo, Japan
 4th
 400 metres
49.82

4 × 400 m relay
3:18.47
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
1992
European Indoor Championships
Genoa, Italy
 2nd
 400 m
 51.48

Olympic Games
Barcelona, Spain
 2nd
 400 metres
49.05
1st
 4 × 400 m relay
3:20.20


References





  1. ^ "Athletics - World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved September 12, 2006..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ abc IAAF profile for Olga Bryzgina Archived 2012-12-02 at the Wayback Machine


  3. ^ ab 2012 Olympic Games Statistics - Women’s 400m, Athletics Weekly


  4. ^ ab START LIST 400 Metres Women - Round 1 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, Daegu 2011 (27 August 2011)


  5. ^ Romanization of Russian differs from Romanization of Ukrainian


  6. ^ Russia dominates on day of upsets in Bergen - European Team Champs Day 2, International Association of Athletics Federations (June 21, 2010)


  7. ^ (in Ukrainian) Єлизавета Бризгіна: Головне — не участь, а перемога, Ukrayina Moloda (July 23, 2010)


  8. ^ Chris Tomlinson secures European long jump bronze, BBC (August 1, 2010)


  9. ^ Lewis-Francis accepts blame for 4x100m relay disaster, BBC (July 31, 2010)




External links



  • Olga Bryzgina at IAAF












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