Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikova

Lidiya Skoblikova
Full name	Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikova
nation	Russia
birthday	8th March 1939 (age 81)
place of birth	Zlatoust ,  Soviet Union
size	163 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
society	Moscow locomotive
Pers. Best times	500 m: 45.0 1000 m: 1: 31.8 1500 m: 2: 21.8 3000 m: 5: 04.2
status	resigned
End of career	1969
Medal table
Olympic games 6 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold Squaw Valley 1960 1,500 m gold Squaw Valley 1960 3,000 m gold Innsbruck 1964 500 m gold Innsbruck 1964 1,000 m gold Innsbruck 1964 1,500 m gold Innsbruck 1964 3,000 m  All around world championships bronze Ekaterinburg 1959 All-around bronze Ostersund 1960 All-around bronze Tønsberg 1961 All-around silver Imatra 1962 All-around gold Karuizawa 1963 All-around gold Kristinehamn 1964 All-around

Lidija Pawlowna Skoblikowa ( Russian Лидия Павловна Скобликова ; born March 8, 1939 in Slatoust ) is a former Soviet speed skater.

With her six gold medals at the Olympic Games, she is one of the most successful speed skaters ever. At the 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley , she won over 1500 and 3000 meters. Four years later at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck , she won all of the four 500, 1000, 1500 and 3000 meter courses. In the same year she was named Europe's Sportswoman of the Year by the Polish press agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) .

In 1968 Skoblikowa took part in the Winter Olympics in Grenoble and finished 11th over 1500 meters and 6th over 3000 meters.

In 1969 she retired from active sports.

See also

• List of the most successful Winter Olympians

Web links

• Lidija Pawlowna Skoblikowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news