Marina Grigorievna Sidorova (russian: Марина Григорьевна Сидорова-Никифорова, née Nikiforova; born 16 January 1950) is a Russian former Soviet track and field

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er. She was a seven-time Soviet champion, winning over distances from

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. Born in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad), she made her Olympic debut at age twenty-two and was a

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semi-finalist and helped the Soviet women to fifth in the

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. Her greatest individual success came at the

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, where she won the women's 400 metres title. She took a 400 m bronze at the

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and was twice a 200 m silver medallist at the Universiade. She also won three individual medals at the

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during her career. With the Soviet women's relay team, she won four bronze medals at major competitions. Her first came at the

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, alongside Lyudmila Zharkova,

Galina Bukharina Galina Petrovna Bukharina (russian: Галина Петровна Бухарина; born 14 February 1945) is a Soviet track athlete. She competed mainly in the 100 metres and 4 x 100 m relay. She is head coach of 400 m and relay athletes of Ind ...

and

Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Nadezhda Viktorovna Besfamilnaya (russian: Надежда Викторовна Бесфамильная) (born 27 December 1950) is a Soviet Union, Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Besfamilnaya trained at the Armed Forces ...

. She won medals in both

and

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at the

and returned two years later to win another bronze in the 4 × 400 metres relay in a team anchored by future Olympic champion

Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Andreyevna Kondratyeva (russian: Людмила Андреевна Кондратьева; born 11 April 1958) is a Russian former track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union and is the 1980 Olympic 100 m champion. Kondr ...

. She was the daughter of two former athletes who became athletics coaches, Grigory Nikiforov and Valentina Nikiforova, who propagated a new training technique for distance running, based on long, low-speed runs and short high-speed runs.

Personal bests

* 60 metres – 7.65 (1973)Marina Sidorova
All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03. *

– 11.2 (1973)Marina Sidorova
Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2017-04-03. *

– 22.72 (1973) *

– 50.98 (1977)

International competitions

National titles

Soviet Athletics Championships The Soviet Athletics Championships (russian: link=no, Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served as the Soviet natio ...

**100 m: 1974 **200 m: 1973, 1974, 1977 **400 m: 1977 *

Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships The Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships (russian: Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике в помещении) was an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served a ...

**400 m: 1977, 1978

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sidorova, Marina Living people 1950 births Soviet female sprinters Russian female sprinters Athletes from Saint Petersburg Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade Olympic female sprinters

Personal bests

International competitions

National titles

See also

References

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