Nina Yuryevna Gopova

Nina Jurjewna Gopowa ( Russian: Нина Юрьевна Гопова-Трофимова ; born May 4, 1953 in Gorki ), married Nina Jurjewna Trofimowa , is a former Soviet canoeist . She won one Olympic gold and one silver medal and two gold medals at world championships.

Athletic career

Gopowa won three medals at the 1973 Tampere World Championships at the age of twenty . In a single kayak she won ahead of Petra Borzym from the GDR. In a two- person kayak , Ilse Kaschube and Petra Borzym won ahead of Lyudmila Pinajewa and Gopowa. In the four-kayak, Gopowa and Pinajewa won together with Larissa Kabakowa and Tamara Popowa ahead of the Hungarians and Romanians.

The following year at the World Championships in Mexico City , Anke Ohde from the GDR won all three gold medals. Gopowa received two silver medals: in one and in four together with Larissa Kabakowa, Tatjana Korschunowa and Galina Kreft .

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, only one and two were in the program. In one won Carola Zirzow before Korshunova. The boats from the Soviet Union, the GDR and Hungary won the semi-finals in two. In the final, Nina Gopowa and Galina Kreft won with half a second ahead of Hungarians Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai , with Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow close behind .

Four years later, Nina Trofimova and Galina Alexejewa, as Galina Kreft was called after their marriage, competed in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . The two won the silver medal behind Carsta Genaus and Martina Bischof from the GDR.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Nina Jurjewna Gopowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The world championship results on Sport-Complete