Irina Viktorovna Nazarova (Bagryantseva) (russian: Ирина Викторовна Назарова (Багрянцева)) (born July 31, 1957 in

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

) is a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She trained in

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. She is the daughter of former Olympian, Elizabeta Bagriantseva, who won silver in the discus at the Helsinki Games in 1952. She competed for the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

held in

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Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

, where she won the gold medal with her teammates

Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Prorochenko (russian: Татьяна Пророченко, uk, Тетяна Пророченко) (March 15, 1952 in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union – March 11, 2020) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre ...

, Tatyana Goyshchik and Nina Zyuskova in the women's 4x400 metres event.

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