Irina Podyalovskaya

Soviet middle-distance runner (1959–2024)
  • 4 × 800 metres relay: 7:50.17 (1984, WR)
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1983 Edmonton 800 metres

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.

Podyalovskaya holds the current world record in the rarely contested 4 × 800 metres relay (7:50.17 minutes with Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina and Lyudmila Borisova).

Podyalovskaya died on 13 August 2024, at the age of 64.[1]

References

  1. ^ Умерла заслуженный мастер спорта СССР Ирина Подъяловская (in Russian)

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