Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tschischowa

Nadezhda Tschischowa
Tschischowa 1968
Full name	Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tschischowa
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	29th September 1945 (age 74)
place of birth	Usolye-Sibirskoye ,  Soviet Union
size	174 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	21.45 m
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × European championships 4 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 5 × 1 × 1 × Summer Universiade 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Munich 1972 Shot put silver Montreal 1976 Shot put bronze Mexico City 1968 Shot put  European championships gold Budapest 1966 Shot put gold Athens 1969 Shot put gold Helsinki 1971 Shot put gold Rome 1974 Shot put  European Indoor Championships gold Prague 1967 Shot put gold Madrid 1968 Shot put gold Vienna 1970 Shot put gold Sofia 1971 Shot put gold Grenoble 1972 Shot put silver Gothenburg 1974 Shot put bronze Dortmund 1966 Shot put  Universiade gold Turin 1970 Shot put gold Moscow 1973 Shot put silver Budapest 1965 Shot put

Nadezhda Wladimirowna Tschischowa ( Russian: Надежда Владимировна Чижова; born September 29, 1945 in Usolye-Sibirskoye in Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet athlete and Olympic champion .

Tschischowa dominated from the mid- 60s to mid- 70s the European scene in the shot put . In her athletic career, she improved the world record nine times and won the gold medal in the shot put at the European Championships in 1966 , 1969 , 1971 and 1974 .

At the XIX. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico she won the bronze medal behind the two GDR Germans Margitta Gummel (gold) and Marita Lange (silver). At the XX. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich she was in top form and won the gold medal ahead of Margitta Gummel (silver) and Bulgarian Iwanka Christowa (bronze). At the end of her sporting career, she had already passed the peak of her performance in the XXI. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal , everything went again and won the silver medal behind Iwanka Christowa (gold) and in front of the Czechoslovak Helena Fibingerová (bronze).

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• Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tschischowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )