Elena Ivanovna Rusina

Jelena Ivanovna Rusina medal table
Sprinter
Russia , Soviet Union , United Team
Olympic games
gold	1992 Barcelona	4 × 400 m
World championships
silver	1993 Stuttgart	4 × 400 m
European championships
silver	1990 split	4 × 400 m
Indoor world championships
gold	1995 Barcelona	4 × 400 m

Jelena Iwanowna Rusina ( Russian Елена Ивановна Рузина , English transcription Yelena Ruzina ; born April 3, 1964 in Voronezh ) is a former Russian sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run and was internationally successful, especially as a relay runner.

Life

Starting for the Soviet Union, she won her first international medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split . In the 4 x 400 meter relay , she finished second behind the GDR and ahead of the British team in 3: 23.24 minutes together with Jelena Winogradowa , Lyudmyla Dschyhalowa and Tazzjana Ljadouskaja .

Rusina experienced the high point of her career two years later at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . In the 4 x 400 meter relay, the relay of the United Team of the CIS around Rusina, Lyudmyla Dschyhalowa, Olga Nazarova and Olha Wladykina-Bryshina secured the gold medal in 3: 20.20 minutes ahead of the teams of the USA and Great Britain. Rusina also started in Barcelona in the 400-meter run and reached the semi-finals.

At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , she celebrated another relay medal. The Russian team in the line-up of Rusina, Tatjana Alexejewa , Margarita Chromowa-Ponomarjowa and Irina Priwalowa had to admit defeat only the US-American relay in 3: 18.38 minutes. In the 400-meter run, Rusina narrowly missed the finals as fifth of her semi-final run.

In 1995 she won the title in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona . Together with Tatjana Tschebykina , Jekaterina Kulikowa and Svetlana Goncharenko , she relegated the Czech and US teams to their places in 3: 29.29 minutes.

Jelena Rusina is 1.73 m tall and weighed 58 kg during her active time.

Personal best

• 200 m : 22.73 s, May 19, 1988, Sochi
  • Halle: 23.25 s, March 6, 1993, Karlsruhe
• 400 m: 50.65 s, July 6, 1990, Kiev
  • Halle: 52.06 s, February 13, 1993, Liévin

Web links

• Yelena Ruzina in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yelena Ruzina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )