Yevgenia Ivanovna Sechenova
Yevgenia Ivanovna Setschenowa ( Russian Евгения Ивановна Сеченова ; born August 17, 1918 in Sevastopol ; † June 1990) was a Soviet athlete . With a height of 1.73 m, her competition weight was 60 kg.
Yevgenia Sechenova was the most successful Soviet sprinter of the 1940s. She won two gold, silver and bronze medals each at European championships.
Career
In 1939 she won her first Soviet championship in the 200-meter run , and in 1940 she became champion in the 100 meters and the 200 meters. In 1944 she won again over 200 meters. After the war she won over 100 meters in 1946/1947 and 1949/1950 and over 200 meters in 1946 and 1949.
At the end of August 1946 in Oslo, the first European championships after the Second World War, the Soviet Union competed for the first time in an international championship. Yevgenia Sechenova won over 100 meters in 11.9 s with three tenths of a second ahead of Briton Winifred Jordan . Setschenowa won over 200 meters in 25.4 s, Jordan was second again in 25.6 s. With the Soviet 4 x 100 meter relay she won bronze in 48.7 s behind the relays from the Netherlands and France.
Four years later at the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 , she won silver over 100 meters in 12.3 seconds behind Fanny Blankers-Koen in 11.7 seconds. Over 200 meters in 24.8 s she was even more behind the exceptional Dutch athlete, who won in 24.0 s. With the relay she won bronze again in 47.5 s, this time behind the seasons from Great Britain and the Netherlands, both of which were stopped with 47.4 s.
1952 in Helsinki , the Soviet Union first appeared in the Olympic Games. Setschenowa retired over 200 meters in 25.2 s in the semi-finals. With the season she reached the finals. The Soviet squadron took fourth place in 46.3 s, behind the squadrons from the USA, West Germany and Great Britain.
Top performances
- 100 meters: 11.8 s (1951)
- 200 meters: 24.7 s (1951)
literature
- ATFS (ed): USSR Athletics Statistics . London 1988
- Peter Matthews (ed): Athletics 1991 . Windsor 1991 ISBN 1-873057-03-2
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics . Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV
Web links
- Yevgeniya Sechenova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sechenova, Yevgenia Ivanovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сеченова, Евгения Ивановна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sevastopol , Soviet Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1990 |