Lyudmila Yevgenevna Titova

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Lyudmila Titova Speed ​​skating
Lyudmila Titova (1968)
Full name Lyudmila Yevgenevna Titova
nation Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet UnionRussiaRussiaRussia 
birthday March 26, 1946
place of birth ChitaSoviet UnionSoviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
size 176 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
status resigned
End of career 1976
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 1968 Grenoble 500 m
silver 1968 Grenoble 1000 m
bronze 1972 Sapporo 500 m
ISU Sprint World Championships
gold 1970 West Allis Sprint four-way fight
bronze 1972 Eskilstuna Sprint four-way fight
ISU All around world championships
bronze 1971 Helsinki Four-way fight
ISU All-around European Championships
silver 1971 Leningrad All-around
last change: August 26, 2016

Lyudmila Evgenjewna Titowa ( Russian Людмила Евгеньевна Титова ; born March 26, 1946 in Chita , RSFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian speed skater and Olympic champion.

Career

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , she won over 500 meters in speed skating ahead of Mary Meyers from the USA . She also won the silver medal over 1000 meters in speed skating behind the Dutchwoman Carolina Geijssen . Four years later at the Olympic Games in Sapporo , she won the bronze medal behind Anne Henning and Wera Krasnowa . At the distance of 1000 meters in speed skating, Titowa just missed the bronze medal and finished fourth. She stayed completely without medals at her last Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1976 , where she finished 7th over 1000 meters in speed skating.

Immediately after the 1972 Olympics, she also won the bronze medal in the sprint four-way battle in Eskilstuna at the World Championships. Two years earlier she was able to win the world title in West Allis, USA . In 1971 she won the bronze medal behind Nina Statkewitsch and Stien Kaiser at the all- around world championship in Helsinki .

At the all-around European championships in Leningrad in 1971 , Titova won the silver medal behind her compatriot Nina Statkewitsch .

After the end of her sporting career, Titova worked as a sports commentator on the radio.

World records

distance time date place
1,000 m 1: 29.5 World record January 9, 1970 Medeo
1,000 m 1: 29.0 World record 20th February 1971 Inzell
1,000 m 1: 27.7 World record February 21, 1971 Inzell

Personal records

distance time date place
500 m 42.35 March 29, 1975 Medeo
1,000 m 1: 24.31 March 16, 1976 Medeo
1,500 m 2: 14.77 March 21, 1975 Medeo
3,000 m 5: 01.89 January 16, 1972 Inzell

Awards (selection)

Lyudmila Titowa, Carry Geijssen and Dianne Holum (1968)

Expedition to the South Pole

In 1996 Titowa took part in a Meteliza expedition to the South Pole , the expedition reached the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .

family

  • Father: Jewgenij Michajlowitsch Titow (1911–1982)
  • Mother: Nadeshda Alexandrowna Titowa (1912–1995)
  • Husband: Anatolij Anatoljewitsch Samochwalow (* 1944)
    • Sons: Alexander (* 1983) and Alexej (* 1982)

Web links

Commons : Lyudmila Titowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Mary Meyers in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
  2. Nina Statkewitsch in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
  3. a b c d e Lyudmila Titowa on infosport.ru (Russian)
  4. Указ Президента РФ от 15 июля 2011 г. N 955 "О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации" ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uristu.com
  5. 10-летию перехода команды Метелица к Южному полюсу посвящается (Russian)