Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in

Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast Petrovsk (russian: Петро́вск) is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Medveditsa River (left tributary of the Don) northwest of Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History Petrovsk is an old mer ...

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) is a

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n former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the

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. She was also awarded the

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

and the title ''

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR (russian: Единая Всесоюзная спортивная классификация) is a document which provided general Soviet physical education system requirements for both athletes an ...

'' in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik. A month before the 1976 Olympic Games in

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, Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 m in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 beating Ludmila Bragina's world record by 5.4 seconds. She won the 1500 m and 800 m golds in the Montreal games, setting a world record in the latter. In 1980, she ran the 1500 m in 3:52.47, becoming the first woman to run the distance faster than

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. This stood as a world record for thirteen years. Her career came to an abrupt end in September 1984 when she was suspended for 18 months for refusing to undertake a drugs test after winning a 1,500m race in 3:58.63 in

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. Apart from her sports achievements, Kazankina is known for her scientific works. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

in 1975. Later she defended her dissertation for the ''Candidate of Pedagogical Science'' degree at the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education and worked as a lecturer until 1997. She is the author of more than 20 scientific works. Kazankina lives in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

where she worked at the ''State Committee of Physical Culture and Tourism'' of

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. In 2023, she criticized the

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for requiring Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and called "absurd" the idea of them condemning the " special military operation".Казанкина назвала неприемлемыми условия МОК по допуску российских спортсменов
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Almost Forgotten Star: Interview with Tatiana Kazankina

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