Nadejda Danilina (sometimes spelled ''Nedezdha Danilinia'') ( Novouralsk,

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1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular 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, ...

luge A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...

r who competed in the late 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the women's singles event at

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. Danilina was married to

Sergey Danilin Sergey Danilin (1 January 1960 – 4 October 2021) was a Soviet luger who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned the silver medal in the men's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984 ...

, who won the silver medal in the men's singles luge event at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

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1988 luge women's singles results
Living people Lugers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Russian female lugers Soviet female lugers Year of birth missing (living people) Olympic lugers for the Soviet Union Olympic lugers for the Unified Team People from Novouralsk Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast

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