Tatyana Kazankina

Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina is a Soviet/ Russian former runner. She was born on 17th December 1951 in Petrovsk, Russia.

Her achievements:-

• In the year 1976, Tatyana was awarded the "Order of the Red Banner of Labour".
• In the same year (1976), she was honored with the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR.
• Won gold medals in both 800m and 1500m events at the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal
• Established a record, just a month before 1976 Olympics Games by being the first woman to finish 1500m in less than 4 minutes, finishing metric mile in 3:56.0
• In the year 1980, she set a new world record in 1500m event clocking 3:52.47 which stood as a world record for 13 years and still remains European record.
• She won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics, held in Moscow, in the year 1980.
• Won a bronze medal in 3000 m event at the World Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 1983