Vera Ivanovna Krasnova (russian: Вера Ивановна Краснова, born 3 April 1950) is a retired Russian speed skater who specialized in the 500 m distance. She competed at the

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

and

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

and won a silver medal in 1972, placing fifth in 1976. Krasnova won a silver medal in the 500 m at the 1972 European All-around Championships. She took part in five

World Sprint Speed Skating Championships The World Sprint Speed Skating Championships are annual speed skating championships. The championships are held over a two-day period, with the skaters racing one 500 m and one 1,000 m each day. Since the higher speeds towards the end ...

, with the best result of fourth place in 1975. Domestically she won the 500 m Soviet title in 1969, 1972 and 1976. Krasnova was born in Omsk, but later moved to Moscow and worked there as a school teacher.

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1950 births Living people Soviet female speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of the Soviet Union Speed skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in speed skating Russian female speed skaters {{Russia-speed-skating-bio-stub Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics