Nataliya Kurova (later Artamonova; russian: Наталья Курова (-Артамонова); born 22 April 1962) is a retired Russian

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...

who won a bronze medal at the

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in 1986. She also competed 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 ...

in the 1500 m and finished in seventh place. Nataliya Kurova 1980b

Personal bests: *500 m – 41.22 (1986) *1000 m – 1:21.05 (1987) *1500 m – 2:07.98 (1988) * 3000 m – 4:30.79 (1986) * 5000 m – 7:59.11 (1987)

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1962 births Living people Olympic speed skaters for the Soviet Union Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics Russian female speed skaters Soviet female speed skaters {{Russia-speed-skating-bio-stub