Yevdokiya Panteleyevna Mekshilo () (23 March 1931 – 16 January 2013) was a female

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s for

Armed Forces sports society The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces ( ''sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA''; , ''Fizkulturno-sportivnoe obyedinenie Vooruzhonnykh Sil SSSR''), also called the Sports Clubs of the Sovie ...

. At the

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964. The city was a ...

, she won a gold in the 3 × 5 km relay and a silver in the 10 km event. She was born in

Gorno-Altaysk Gorno-Altaysk (, ; ; historically, pre-1932: Ulala) is the capital town of the Altai Republic, Russia. The population stands at around 64,000 people as of 2020 with steady growth over the recent years. In the past, the town was known as ''Ulala' ...

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* * * 1931 births 2013 deaths Soviet female cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers for the Soviet Union Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics {{USSR-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stubMEKS