Valentina Nikolaevna Tichomirova

Valentina Nikolajewna Tichomirowa ( Russian Валентина Николаевна Тихомирова ; born June 28, 1941 in Makhachkala , Dagestani ASSR , Soviet Union , today Dagestan , Russia ) is a former athlete who competed for the Soviet Union. She became European pentathlon champion in 1966 .

In 1963 she finished fourth in the Soviet championship with 260 points behind the champion Tatiana Shchelkanova . In 1966 Tichomirowa was third in the Soviet championship for the first time on the podium. The champion of the year 1966 Irina Press entered the European Championships in Budapest in 1966 as little as the second-placed Shchelkanova. Tichomirowa won the competition as the only participant from the Soviet Union. With 4787 points, she had a 22 point lead over nineteen-year-old Heide Rosendahl from Germany . Inge Exner from the GDR, the British Mary Rand and the Hungarian Annamária Tóth came in third to fifth .

After Irina Press retired, Tichomirova was the strongest Soviet pentathlete in the following years, she was Soviet champion in 1967 and 1969 to 1972. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Ingrid Becker (FRG) won quite clearly ahead of the Austrian Liese Prokop and Annamária Tóth. 32 points behind Tóth, Tichomirowa finished fourth with 4927 points.

At the European Championships in Athens in 1969 , Rosendahl and Becker did not compete because the German team boycotted the individual competitions because of the exclusion of Jürgen May . Liese Prokop won ahead of the Swiss Meta Antenen and Marija Sisjakowa , with 4715 points and 58 points behind her team-mate Tichomirowa was fourth.

In 1971 the European Championships took place in Helsinki . Heide Rosendahl won ahead of Burglinde Pollak and Margrit Herbst from the GDR. With 66 points to the West German Karen Mack , Tichomirowa was fifth with 4986 points.

Tichomirowa was also fifth in her last great pentathlon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. After a new scoring system was introduced in 1972, the 4801 points set the British Mary Peters new world record. Behind Rosendahl, Pollak and Christine Bodner from the GDR, Tichomirowa achieved 4597 points. In 1973 she even reached 4754 points according to the new table.

Valentina Tichomirowa is 1.77 m tall and weighed 73 kg during her active time.

literature

• ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. London 1988.

Web links

• Valentina Nikolajewna Tichomirowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )