Tatyana Biryulina (born 16 July 1955,
Tashkent) is a former
javelin thrower from the
Soviet Union, who set the world record and world's best year performance in 1980. She made her mark (70.08 m) at a pre-Olympic trial in
Podolsk on 12 July 1980. She competed at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in
Moscow, finishing in sixth place (65.08 m), and ended her athletics career soon afterwards.
IAAF Profile
, www2.iaaf.org; accessed 17 November 2014.
References
1955 births
Living people
Uzbekistani female javelin throwers
Soviet female javelin throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
Sportspeople from Tashkent
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