Tamara Nikolaevna Rylowa

Tamara Rylowa
Full name	Tamara Nikolaevna Rylowa
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	October 1, 1931
place of birth	Vologda ,  Soviet Union
size	163 cm
Weight	66 kg
date of death	January 30, 2021
Place of death	Saint Petersburg ,  Russia
Career
End of career	1967
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 4 × 2 × National medals 4 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1960 Squaw Valley 1000 m  All around world championships silver 1955 Kuopio All-around bronze 1956 Borlänge All-around silver 1957 Imatra All-around silver 1958 Kristinehamn All-around gold 1959 Sverdlovsk All-around silver 1960 Ostersund All-around bronze 1964 Kristinehamn All-around

Tamara Nikolajewna Rylowa ( Russian Тамара Николаевна Рылова ; born  October 1, 1931 in Vologda , † January 30, 2021 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet speed skater . She became world champion in the all-around competition in 1959 and won seven other international medals between 1955 and 1964, including an Olympic bronze medal in the 1000-meter race in 1960.

Career

Rylowa grew up in northwestern Russia Vologda and ran on the same river since childhood in the winter on ice skates . In the years after the Second World War , the chairman of the city sports committee became aware of her and referred her to the coach Mikhail Kuzmich , who looked after her from the age of 16. In 1952 Rylowa took part for the first time in the Soviet four-way championship and ran in Medeo in the victory of Rimma Zhukovas in eleventh place. Two years later, at the 1954 World Cup, she was part of the Soviet squad that shaped the title fights: All eight athletes were among the top eleven in the overall standings, Rylowa was eighth, making it the sixth-best athlete in her country. The Soviet Union was the all-around world champion in speed skating for fifteen consecutive years from 1952 to 1966, making it the world's leading nation throughout Rylowa's entire career.

On January 11 and 12, 1955, Rylowa improved the world records over 500 meters and over 1000 meters to 45.6 seconds and 1: 33.4 minutes , respectively, in an international competition in Medeo . The record held by Laila Schou Nilsen on the 500 meter sprint course had not been exceeded for almost 18 years. Rylowa's records lasted seven and eight years, respectively, until they were beaten by compatriots Inga Voronina and Lidija Skoblikowa in the early 1960s . Shortly after the world record runs, the then 23-year-old also won her first of a total of four Soviet all-around championships (later titles followed in 1957, 1959 and 1960) and her first international medal with silver at the 1955 World Cup in Kuopio . As the first female speed skater from Vologda Oblast , she received the title of sports champion of the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s . Her long-time supervisor, Kuzmich, recommended Rylowa to the Lesgaft Institute for Physical Education in Leningrad , where she then trained with Ivan Anikanov .

In the following years Rylowa was one of the national elite and, in view of the Soviet strength, was also one of the international leaders in speed skating for women. At the World Championships from 1955 to 1958 she was - with victories by Rimma Schukowa, Sofja Kondakowa and Inga Artamonova (later married Woronina) - four times as second or third on the podium. In 1959 Rylowa won the only international title of her career in Sverdlovsk : with victories over 500 meters and 1000 meters, she prevailed ahead of Valentina Stenina , Lidija Skoblikowa and Artamonova and became world champion. A year later , Rylowa won another World Cup silver medal behind Stenina and traveled as a co-favorite to the Olympic premiere of women's speed skating at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley . There she took part in three of four individual distance competitions and won a bronze medal over 1000 meters (0.7 seconds behind Klara Gussewa ). She also took fourth and ninth place in the 500-meter and 3000-meter distances. She viewed these results as a personal failure.

In the 1960s, Rylowa, who was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sport of the USSR in 1959 , only occasionally followed up on earlier results. In 1964 she won a bronze medal in the all-around competition in the national championships as well as in the world championship , where she was last part of the Soviet squad. In January 1967 the now 35-year-old Rylowa competed for the last time in a comparative competition between Leningrad and Finland. After her active speed skating career, she worked at the Institute of Physical Education at the Leningrad State University .

statistics

winter Olympics

Tamara Rylowa was part of the Soviet Olympic squad in 1960. She took part in three competitions and won a bronze medal.

winter Olympics		500 m	1000 m	3000 m
year	place
1960	Squaw Valley	4th	3.	9.

All-around world championships

From 1954 to 1964 Tamara Rylowa took part in eight all- around world championships and won a gold medal, four silver and two bronze medals. The following table shows their times - and their placements in brackets behind them - on the four individual routes run as well as the total number of points calculated from them after the Samalog and the final placement . The arrangement of the distances corresponds to their order in the program of the all-around world championships during Rylowa's active time, in 1956 the composition of the all-around event was changed.

All-around world championship		500 m (in seconds)	3000 m (in minutes)	1000 m (in minutes)	5000 m (in minutes)	Points	place
year	place
1954	Ostersund	49.0 (4)	5: 36.4 (9)	1: 43.7 (8)	9: 42.5 (6)	215.166	8th.
1955	Kuopio	48.9 (1)	5: 40.9 (3)	1: 42.6 (4)	9: 39.9 (3)	215.006	2.
year	place	500 m (in seconds)	1500 m (in minutes)	1000 m (in minutes)	3000 m (in minutes)	Points	place
1956	Bor length	48.7 (3)	2: 39.7 (5)	1: 41.8 (3)	5: 36.0 (3)	208.833	3.
1957	Imatra	49.0 (2)	2: 38.5 (4)	1: 41.9 (3)	5: 45.0 (7)	210.283	2.
1958	Kristinehamn	47.6 (1)	2: 37.3 (2)	1: 45.2 (4)	5: 42.8 (2)	209.766	2.
1959	Sverdlovsk	47.5 (1)	2: 32.5 (2)	1: 41.0 (1)	5: 36.5 (4)	204.916	1.
1960	Ostersund	49.7 (2)	2: 38.4 (3)	1: 41.2 (3)	5: 39.2 (6)	209.633	2.
1964	Kristinehamn	46.9 (6)	2: 29.3 (4)	1: 36.4 (3)	5: 21.9 (6)	198.516	3.

Personal bests

Rylowa set her personal bests at the beginning of her career over 1000 meters (and on the 5000 meter course, which was no longer part of the usual four-way battle from 1955), while she improved her own best on the 500-meter course in 1964.

distance	time	date	place
500 m	45.2 s	February 29, 1964	Sverdlovsk
1000 m	1: 33.4 min	January 11, 1955	Medeo
1500 m	2: 25.1 min	January 27, 1962	Medeo
3000 m	5: 16.6 min	January 20, 1960	Medeo
5000 m	9: 09.2 min	January 19, 1955	Medeo

World records

Rylowa set a total of three world records between 1956 and 1960 . She ran a best time each on the 500-meter and 1000-meter distance as well as in the mini four-way battle . She ran all records on the track in Medeo .

• Discipline: length of the run or the form of the all-around event.
• Time / Points: Elapsed time or (in all- around competitions) achieved number of points according to the Samalog .
• Date: date of the world record. In the case of world records in the all-around event, the date given corresponds to the last day of the all-around event.
• Location: Ice rink and location of the world record.
• Stock: Duration that the record was valid.
• Successor: runner who was the first to break the specified record.

World records set by Tamara Rylowa

No.	discipline	Time / points	date	place	Duration	Successor
1	500 meters	45.6 s	Jan. 11, 1955	Medeo	7 years and 16 days	Inga Voronina
2	1000 meters	1: 33.4 min	Jan. 12, 1955	Medeo	8 years and 41 days	Lidija Skoblikova
3	Mini four-way battle	196,416	Jan. 21, 1960	Medeo	2 years and 7 days	Inga Voronina

Web links

• Tamara Nikolajewna Rylowa in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Statistics on the speedskatingnews.info page
• Portrait of Tamara Rylowa on vologda-oblast.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ В Петербурге скончалась призер Олимпийских игр Тамара Рылова , spbvedomosti.ru, February 2, 2021
2. ↑ ^{a b c} P. Neprjachin: Tamara Rylowa: "Mne tschasto snitsja Vologda ...". In: Krasny Sewer. March 16, 1996. Retrieved from booksite.ru .
3. ^ ^{A b c} Albert Iwanowitsch Fedjakow: Rylowa Tamara Nikolajewna. In: Konkobeschny sport na Vologodtschine. Poligraf-Periodika, Wologda 2011. pp. 23-25. Available as a PDF on booksite.ru .
4. ↑ Competition: USSR Allround Championships 1952 Women on speedskatingnews.info. Accessed December 18, 2020. A total of 24 athletes competed.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} statistics at Speedskatingnews , accessed on December 18, 2020.
6. ↑ Profile of Tamara Rylowa on schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved December 18, 2020.