Irina Podyalovskaya (born 9 October 1959) is a retired female

middle distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 15 ...

who represented the

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in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (1:55.69) on 22 June 1984 at a meet in Kiev. She holds the current

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in the rarely contested

4 × 800 metres relay The 4 × 800 metres relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 800 metres or 2 laps on a standard 400 metre track. The IAAF ratifies world records in the event and it became a world championship ev ...

(7:50.17 minutes with Nadezhda Olizarenko,

Lyubov Gurina Lyubov Mikhailovna Gurina (russian: Любовь Гурина; born 6 August 1957 in Matushkino, Kirov Oblast) is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR, the Unified Team at the Olympics, Unified Team, and later Russia. Competing ...

and Lyudmila Borisova).

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1959 births Living people Sportspeople from Mogilev Region Soviet female middle-distance runners Belarusian female middle-distance runners World Athletics record holders (relay) Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade Friendship Games medalists in athletics {{USSR-athletics-bio-stub