Valentina Gerasimova (born May 15, 1948 in Quaraghandy, Quaraghandy Province, Kazakhstan) is a retired Soviet era track and field athlete specializing in middle distances. She competed in the 1976 Olympics.[1] She entered the event as the world record holder, having run a 1:56.0 in Kiev just a month earlier in qualifying for the Olympics (though the mark had not yet been ratified as the world record, which it was after the Olympics).[2][3] That time was a second and a half improvement on the previous record set by Bulgarian Svetla Zlateva and proved to be her personal best in the event.[4]
In the Montreal Olympics, she qualified for the semi-finals but was unable to make the final with a sub-par performance, as 6 of the qualifiers ahead of her bettered the standing Olympic record. In the final, teammate Tatyana Kazankina took Gerasimova's world record, improving an additional second plus to 1:54.94.
References
edit- ^ Valentina Gerasimova at Sports Reference
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Shatov, Aleksandr (9 April 2010). "Рекордсменка из будущего / Лёгкая Атлетика / Валентина Герасимова" (in Russian). sports.kz.
- ^ "800 Metres - women - senior - outdoor".
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