Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova

Nina Ponomaryova
1960
Full name	Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	April 27, 1929
place of birth	Smytschka, Sverdlovsk Oblast
size	173 cm
Weight	84 kg
date of death	19th August 2016
Place of death	Moscow
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	56.82 m
society	VS Moskva
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Helsinki 1952 Discus throw bronze Melbourne 1956 Discus throw gold Rome 1960 Discus throw European championships gold Bern 1954 Discus throw

Nina Ponomaryova ( Russian Нина Аполлоновна Пономарёва ., English transcription Nina Ponomaryova, born Ромашкова - Romaschkowa - Romashkova * 27. April 1929 in smychka, Sverdlovsk region , † 19th August 2016 in Moscow ) was a Soviet discus thrower , the 1952 first Soviet Olympic champion became.

In 1947 she started throwing discus after she had previously been tested in various other disciplines such as hurdles and javelin throwing . In 1949 she came third at the Soviet championships. From then on she was trained by the experienced coach Dmitri Markov, and she won the Soviet championships from 1951 to 1958, interrupted only in 1957. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 a team from the Soviet Union took part for the first time. On July 20, Romaschkowa prevailed against 20 athletes from 17 countries with the Olympic record of 51.42 m.

After the games, Nina Romaschkowa improved the world record on August 9, 1952 in Odessa to 53.61 m. Two years later she won the title at the European Championships in Bern with 48.02 m, and in 1956 she won bronze at the Olympic Games in Melbourne with 52.02 m, untrained and with an injury that had not healed. In an interview, she later said that if anabolic steroids had been tested at that time, she would certainly have been disqualified. The following year she was awarded the Order of the Red Labor Banner . In 1960 she won her second Olympic gold medal with 55.10 m at the Games in Rome . Shortly afterwards she ended her career and worked as a trainer for some time.

Web links

• Romaschkowa-Ponomaryova rzutyiskoki.pl
• Nina Ponomarjowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Пономарева (Ромашкова) Нина Аполлоновна . Russian Olympic Committee website (Russian).
• Умерла первая советская олимпийская чемпионка Пономарева . Lenta.ru , August 19, 2016 (Russian).
• Viktor Vassiljev (Виктор Васильев): Чемпионка из ГУЛАГа . versia.ru (Версия), November 8, 2007 (Russian)

• Daniel Meier: A litter for eternity. Obituary in: NZZ am Sonntag of September 4, 2016, p. 21.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Documentation Heroes of the Soviet Union , WDR 2011.