Olga Nikolaevna Gavrilova (russian: Ольга Николаевна Гаврилова; 8 February 1957 – Svobodny, Amur Oblast, 3 January 2022) was a Russian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competed in the

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the ...

. She ranked in the global top twenty-five for the discipline in 1984, recording a personal best mark of . Her sole international medal came at the

1985 IAAF World Cup The 4th IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on October 4–6, 1985, at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra, Australia. Overall results ...

, where she was a surprise winner with a throw of , beating East German champion (and future Olympic champion)

Petra Felke Petra Meier ( Felke; born 30 July 1959) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Representing East Germany, she became the Olympic Champion in 1988 and broke the world record four times between 1985 and ...

and World Championships medallist

Fatima Whitbread Fatima Whitbread (' Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athle ...

. Alongside

Natalya Lisovskaya Natalya Venediktovna Lisovskaya (russian: Наталья Венедиктовна Лисовская; born 16 July 1962) is a Soviet former athlete who competed mainly in shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow. Career Born in Aleg ...

, she was only one of two Soviet female winners at the competition and helped her nation to second place in the team rankings. Gavrilova has only placed ninth at the

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 ...

that year and brought an end to Felke's 26-meeting undefeated streak.1st IAAF/VTB Continental Cup IAAF Statistics Handbook Split 2010
IAAF. Retrieved on 6 December 2015. Gavrilova died in Svobodny on 3 January 2022, at the age of 64.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavrilova, Olga 1957 births 2022 deaths Russian female javelin throwers Soviet female javelin throwers Athletes from Saint Petersburg