Olha Bryzhina ( uk, Ольга Бризгіна,
maiden name
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Olga Arkad'evna Vladykina; russian: Ольга Аркадьевна Владыкина; born June 30, 1963 in
Krasnokamsk
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History
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,
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) is a retired athlete who represented
Soviet Union
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(until 1991) and later
Ukraine
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.
Career
Bryzhina trained at
Dynamo
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in
Voroshilovgrad
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. Competing in the
400 metres
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and
4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (2022). Bryzhina also became world champion in 1987.
Bryzhina successfully defeated
Florence Griffith Joyner
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at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the 4 × 400 m relay. Both runners ran the final leg of the relay and took the baton at about the same time. "Flo-Jo" ran a well paced race, chasing Bryzhina closely, and tried to challenge Bryzhina at the 300m point. However, the challenge from Flo-Jo was unsuccessful and Bryzhina won by a 4m margin, taking gold for the
Soviet Union
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along with a new world record for the USSR team. Bryzhina's time of 47.7 seconds in the 1988 Olympic relay is one of the fastest relay legs ever run by a woman in the history of track and field.
Bryzhina's 400m personal best of 48.27 seconds is the women's 4th best result of all time in a laned 400m race.
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, Daegu 2011 (27 August 2011) She achieved this in the same race that Marita Koch set the current 400m world record of 47.60 seconds on 6 October 1985 at the Bruce Stadium
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in Canberra
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).[2012 Olympic Games Statistics - Women’s 400m]
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Bryzhina's husband ]Viktor Bryzhin
Viktor Arkadyevich Bryzhin ( uk, Віктор Аркадійович Бризгін, russian: Виктор Аркадьевич Брызгин, ''Viktor Bryzgin;'' born 22 August 1962 in VoroshilovgradGreat Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol ...
was also a champion track athlete, winning gold in the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1988 Olympics. Together they have two daughters, Yelizaveta Bryzhina
Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina ( uk, Єлизавета Вікторівна Бризгіна; born November 28, 1989 in Voroshilovgrad) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete, who specializes in the 100 metres.
Her personal best times are 11.42 seconds ...
and Anastasiia Bryzgina
Anastasiia Viktorivna Bryzhina ( uk, Анастасія Вікторівна Бризгіна; born 9 January 1998) is a Ukrainian sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. She competed in t ...
, who are also a successful track runners (competing for Ukraine).
Bryzhina and her daughter Yelizaveta both had a best performance of 22.44 seconds over 200m as of December 2012.Lewis-Francis accepts blame for 4x100m relay disaster
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