Yelizaveta Aleksandrovna Yermolayeva ( rus, Елизавета Александровна Ермолаева; born 2 April 1930) is a former
Soviet
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middle-distance runner
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.
Yermolayeva won the
800 metres
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at the
1957 World University Games
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in
Paris
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, her first international success.
She also won at the
1958 European Championships in
Stockholm, beating
Great Britain
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's
Diane Leather
Diane S Leather Charles (7 January 19335 September 2018) was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile.
Early life
Leather was born in Streetly, Staffordshire. She was one of six children, and the only daughter, ...
in the
championship record time of 2:06.3;
Czechoslovakia
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n sports statistician Jan Popper ranked her the world's best at the distance that year.
Yermolayeva was one of the favorites for the
1960 Summer Olympics
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in
Rome
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, but was unable to compete due to injuries.
References
1930 births
Living people
Soviet female middle-distance runners
Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
European Athletics Championships medalists
Athletes from Minsk
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