Tatyana Petrovna Alekseyeva (; born 7 October 1963) is a former

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ...

sprinter from

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. Her personal best result was 49.98. She retired from international competition after 1998. A three-time individual Russian national champion, she won 400 m silver medals at the

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and

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. With the Russian

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team, she set an indoor world record to win gold at the

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and set the Russian record of 3:18.38 as silver medallist at the

1993 World Championships in Athletics The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Having or ...

Career

Alekseyeva was a double gold medallist for the Soviet Union at the

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, taking both individual and relay 400 m titles. She competed at the

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that year and shared in a relay silver medal with Irina Nazarova,

Mariya Pinigina Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (, née Kulchunova; born 9 February 1958 in Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR) is a former Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres, training at Spartak in Kyiv. She represented the Soviet Union. Pinigina competed ...

and

Olha Bryzhina Olha Bryzhina (, maiden name Olga Arkad'evna Vladykina; ; born June 30, 1963, in Krasnokamsk, Perm Oblast) is a retired athlete who represented the Soviet Union (until 1991) and later Ukraine. Career Bryzhina trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. ...

. She was chosen as the heats runner for the

at the

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and helped the Soviet team to the final, where they took a silver medal. Running a Russian indoor record of 51.03 seconds, Alekseyeva was the 400 m silver medalist at the

1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres race walk events. In addition, ...

. She also won a gold in the

, alongside

Marina Shmonina Marina Shmonina (born 9 February 1965) is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union, and later Russia. She specialized in the 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay. Born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Shmonina competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 S ...

Yelena Andreyeva Yelena Andreyeva (; born 9 May 1969) is a Russian former track and field sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. Her personal best for the distance was 51.30 seconds, set in 1994. She was a one-time Russian champion and took relay silver med ...

, and

Yelena Ruzina Yelena Ivanovna Ruzina () (born 3 April 1964 in Voronezh) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union and later, Russia. She competed for Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Summer Olymp ...

, but the team was stripped of the titles due to doping by Shmonina. At the

she narrowly missed out on an individual medal, taking fourth behind Jamaica's

Sandie Richards Angella ("Sandie") Richards (born 6 November 1968 in Clarendon Park) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She was a bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Career She was a world junior repre ...

, but left the competition with a silver medal through the Russian record-breaking relay team including Ruzina,

Margarita Ponomaryova Margarita Anatolyevna Ponomaryova (; 19 June 1963 – 16 September 2021), also known as Margarita Khromova, was a hurdler from Russia, best known for setting the world record in the women's 400 metres hurdles in 1984 with 53.58 secs. Ponomaryov ...

and

Irina Privalova Irina Anatolyevna Privalova (; born 22 November 1968) is a Russian Olympic gold medallist athlete. Her Summer Olympics debut was in 1992 in the sprint events, where she won two medals— a bronze in the 100 m and running the anchor leg in t ...

, which was runner-up to the United States with 3:18.38 minutes. Alekseyeva was the 400 m runner-up at the

1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Paris, the capital city of France in between 11 and 13 March 1994. This was the last edition to feature race walking. Medal summary Men Women Medal table * Athletes of the Federal ...

. In her last year of international competition, she helped set a world indoor record in the 4 × 400 m relay, anchoring the team of

Tatyana Chebykina Tatyana Gennadyevna Chebykina (; born November 22, 1968) is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. Over the course of her career her greatest success came in relay races. She is married to the race walking, race walker Ni ...

Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Valentinovna Goncharenko (; born May 28, 1971, in Rostov-on-Don as Svetlana Doronina) is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful ...

and

Olga Kotlyarova Olga Kotlyarova (born 12 April 1976 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay. She is also a world champion (indoor and outdoor) in this event. In 2005, she ...

to top the podium at the

in 3:26.84 minutes. She was an individual and relay finalist at the

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. At national level, she won one outdoor national title in the 400 m at the 1997 Russian Athletics Championships and two indoor titles at the

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(1993, 1994). She was runner-up in the

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and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1991 Soviet Athletics Championships and placed third in the

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at the 1992 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships.На стадионах страны и мира. Чемпионат России // Лёгкая атлетика : журнал. — 1992. — № 3. — С. 30.

International competitions

National titles

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alekseyeva, Tatyana 1963 births Living people Sportspeople from Novosibirsk Russian female sprinters Soviet female sprinters FISU World University Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships winners Russian Athletics Championships winners World record setters in athletics (track and field) 20th-century Russian sportswomen

Career

International competitions

National titles

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