Nadia Olisarenko

Nadia Olisarenko
Full name	Nadia Fedorivna Olisarenko
nation	Soviet Union , Ukraine
birthday	November 28, 1953
place of birth	Bransk , Soviet Union
size	165 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	trainer
date of death	17th February 2017
Place of death	Odessa , Ukraine
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	1: 53.43 min ( 800 m ) 3: 56.8 min ( 1500 m )
End of career	1991
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Moscow 1980 800 m bronze Moscow 1980 1500 m  European championships gold Stuttgart 1986 800 m  Universiade gold Mexico City 1979 800 m
last change: December 16, 2017

Nadiya Olisarenko ( Ukrainian Надія Олізаренко , Eng. Transcription Nadiya Olizarenko, birth name Russian Надежда Фёдоровна Мушта - Nadezhda Fedorovna Muschta - Nadezhda Mushta; * 28. November 1953 in Bryansk , Russian SFSR ; † 17th February 2017 in Odessa ) was a Ukrainian middle distance runner , who started for the Soviet Union in 1980 Olympic champion in the 800-meter run .

In 1977 she became a member of the Soviet national athletics team and in 1978 she had her first international successes at the European Championships in Prague as the winner of two silver medals in the 800 m and in the 4 x 400 m relay . In 1979 she won over 800 m gold at the Universiade in Mexico City and came second at the World Cup in Montreal . Shortly afterwards she married the Ukrainian obstacle runner Serhiy Olisarenko .

Shortly after she had set a world record over 800 meters with 1: 54.85 minutes in Moscow on June 12, 1980 , she entered the Olympic Games in Moscow. Over 800 m she won the gold medal in front of her two compatriots Olga Minejewa (silver) and Tatjana Prowidochina (bronze) in the world record time of 1: 53.43 minutes. Over 1500 m she won bronze behind her compatriot Tatjana Kasankina (gold) and the GDR runner Christiane Wartenberg (silver).

She also won silver over 800 m at the European Indoor Championships in Piraeus in 1985 and came third at the World Cup in Canberra . A victory at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart was followed by seventh place at the 1987 World Championships in Rome . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she reached the semifinals.

She ended her career after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Then she worked, together with her husband, as a trainer in the Ukrainian city of Odessa . In 2015 she became seriously ill with ALS . On February 17, 2017, Olisarenko died at the age of 63.

Personal bests

• 400 m : 50.96 s, July 12, 1980, Moscow
  • Halle: 52.69 s, February 7, 1986, Moscow
• 800 m: 1: 53.43 min, July 27, 1980, Moscow (Ukrainian record)
  • Hall: 2: 00.8 min, February 15, 1980, Moscow
• 1000 m (hall): 2: 40.1 min, January 27, 1980, Bryansk
• 1500 m: 3: 56.8 min, July 6, 1980, Moscow
  • Hall: 4: 10.5 min, February 16, 1980, Moscow

Web links

• Nadezhda Olizarenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Nadezhda Olizarenko on sporting-heroes.net
• Nadiya Olizarenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ 1980 Olympic 800m champion Olizarenko dies . In: World Athletics. 19th February 2017.
2. ↑ Не стало украинской олимпийской чемпионки Надежды Олизаренко