Tatyana Borisovna Averina (russian: Татья́на Бори́совна Аве́рина; 25 June 1950 – 22 August 2001 Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006),

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speed skater. After getting married, her name also appeared as Tatyana Barabash (russian: Татьяна Барабаш).

Biography

Averina was trained by Boris Stenin at Burevestnik Voluntary Sports Society in Gorky. In 1970 she was selected for the USSR National Team. She finished in 12th place at the 1970 World All-around Championships and next year won a bronze medal in the 1,000 m at European Championships. In 1972, she won the 500 m event at the Winter Universiade. Between 1974 and 1975 Averina broke world records eleven times: four times in the 1000 m, twice in the 1,500 m, twice in the 500 m and three times in the mini combination. In 1976 she earned the title

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in Innsbruck and won medals (two gold and two bronze) on all four distances. The Swiss newspaper ''Sport'' had written shortly before the Olympic Games, "Narrow specialisation has solidly taken root in the skating sport and these days it will be very hard to find an athlete who will compete in all distances and achieve successes in all, similar to

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." Averina took part in the

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in Lake Placid, but did not win any medal. After having won 3 silver medals in earlier years (1974, 1975 and 1976), Averina became World Allround Champion in 1978. In 1979, she became Soviet Allround Champion. Earlier, she had become Soviet Sprint Champion three times (1973, 1974 and 1975).

Medals

An overview of medals won by Averina at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

World records

Over the course of her career, Averina skated eleven

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Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the ''WR'' column lists the official world records on the dates that Averina skated her personal records. Note that Averina's personal record on the 3,000 m was not a recognised as a world record by the

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(ISU). Also note that the 5,000 m was suspended as a world record event at the 1955 ISU Congress and was reinstated at the 1982 ISU Congress. Averina has an Adelskalender score of 184.589.

References

External links

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Tatyana Averina at SkateResults.comPersonal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating DatabaseShort biography of Tatyana Averina
(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Averina, Tatyana 1950 births 2001 deaths Soviet female speed skaters Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Olympic speed skaters for the Soviet Union Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in speed skating World record setters in speed skating Russian female speed skaters Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health alumni Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Universiade medalists in speed skating World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Competitors at the 1972 Winter Universiade Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod