Nadezhda Pavlovna Khnykina (russian: Надежда Павловна Хныкина-Двалишвили;

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Nadezhda Pavlovna Dvalishvili, ka, ნადეჟდა დვალიშვილ-ხნიკინა; born June 24, 1933) is a former

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athlete who competed mainly in the

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and

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Career

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, and raised in Tbilisi, she became the youngest medallist at the Soviet Athletics Championships in 1949, coming runner-up to Yevgeniya Sechenova, the reigning 200 m European champion. Soon afterwards the teenager broke Soviet records in the 200 m and then the long jump. She won her first national title in 1951. That same year she reached the podium at the World Student Games, taking the long jump bronze medal behind fellow Soviet Aleksandra Chudina and Hungary's

Olga Gyarmati Olga Gyarmati (; 5 October 1924 – 27 October 2013) was a Hungarian all-round track and field athlete who competed at three Olympic Games in four different events. Her greatest success was winning the inaugural Olympic Women's Long Jump c ...

. Khnykina trained at

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in Tbilisi. She competed for the Soviet Union in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

held in

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in the 200 metres, where she won the bronze medal. She repeated this achievement four years later in

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at the 1956 Summer Olympics, only this time it was in the long jump. The ''

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'' listed her as having died in 1994, but this report was in error as the Georgian Olympic Committee celebrated her 80th birthday in 2013.ნადეჟდა დვალიშვილი-ხნიკინა 80
Georgian Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2014-06-18.

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Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili
on olympicgameswinners.com 1933 births Living people Sportspeople from Baku Sportspeople from Tbilisi Soviet female long jumpers Soviet female sprinters Female sprinters from Georgia (country) Dynamo sports society athletes Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR {{USSR-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub