Marina Sysoyeva (born 3 June 1959) is a retired

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er from Frunze,

Kirghiz SSR The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...

who represented the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. Her greatest achievement was the fifth place 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 ...

, jumping 1.91 metres.1980 Summer Olympics, women's results
- Sporting Heroes Two weeks before the competition, she had achieved a career best result of 1.93 metres.

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* 1959 births Living people Sportspeople from Bishkek Kyrgyzstani female high jumpers Soviet female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union {{Kyrgyzstan-athletics-bio-stub