Lyudmila Borisova (; born 3 August 1966) is a retired Soviet and

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. She holds the current

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in the rarely contested 4 x 800 metres relay (7:50.17 minutes with Nadezhda Olizarenko,

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and

Irina Podyalovskaya Irina Podyalovskaya (9 October 1959 – 13 August 2024) was a middle-distance runner who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (1:55.69) on 22 June 1984 at a meet in Kiev. Pody ...

International competitions

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* 1966 births Living people Russian female middle-distance runners Russian female long-distance runners Soviet female middle-distance runners Soviet female long-distance runners Olympic female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Competitors at the 1991 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union Russian Athletics Championships winners Soviet Athletics Championships winners World Athletics record holders (relay) 20th-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub