Galina Sergejewna Kreft

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Galina Sergejewna Kreft , after marriage Galina Sergejewna Alexejewa , ( Russian Галина Сергеевна Крефт-Алексеева ; born March 14, 1950 in Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg); † February 24, 2005 ibid) was a Soviet canoeist . She won one Olympic gold and one silver medal and seven silver medals at world championships.

Athletic career

Galina Kreft won her first international medal at the 1974 World Championships , while the Soviet four- person kayak made up of Nina Gopowa , Larissa Kabakowa , Tatjana Korschunowa and Galina Kreft received the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR. The following year the World Championships took place in Belgrade. Kreft won the silver medal behind the respective canoeists from the GDR in all three boat classes. In one kayak Kreft was defeated by Anke Ohde , in the double kayak won Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow before Jekaterina Nagirnaja and Kreft. Finally, in the four, Bettina Müller , Köster, Ohde and Zirzow won ahead of Larissa Besnitzkaja , Jekaterina Nagirnaja, Nadeschda Trachimenok and Kreft.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, only one and two were in the program. In the one, Zirzow won ahead of Korschunowa. The boats from the Soviet Union, the GDR and Hungary won the semi-finals in two. In the final, Nina Gopowa and Galina Kreft won with half a second ahead of Hungarians Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai , with Köster and Zirzow just behind them.

After a three-year break and a name change through marriage, Galina Alexejewa returned to the regatta courses in 1979. At the 1979 World Championships in Duisburg, Roswitha Eberl from East Germany won ahead of Alexejewa. In the four, the boat from the GDR also won ahead of Galina Alexejewa, Nadeschda Trachimenok, Tatjana Korschunowa and Larissa Nadviga . At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Galina Alexejewa competed with Nina Trofimova, as Nina Gopova has been called since their marriage. The two won the silver medal behind Carsta Genaus and Martina Bischof from the GDR. Alexejewa won her last major international medal at the 1983 World Championships , where she fought for silver behind the GDR foursome together with Inna Schipulina , Nelli Yefremowa and Natalja Kalaschnikowa .

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SURNAME Kreft, Galina Sergeevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexejewa, Galina Sergejewna; Крефт-Алексеева, Галина Сергеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2005
Place of death St. Petersburg