Soviet sprinter
Mariya Pinigina
Mariya Pinigina in 2019
Birth name Mariya Kulchunova Born 9 February 1958 (1958-02-09 ) (age Ivanovka , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union
Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (Мария Джумабаевна Пинигина 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 for USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul , South Korea in the 4 × 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya , 400m bronze medalist Olga Nazarova and olympic 400m champion Olga Bryzgina . That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten.[ 1]
She also won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics .
In November 2013, she served as one of the torch bearers in Yakutsk for the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay .[ 2]
Mariya Pinigina is married to Olympic wrestling champion Pavel Pinigin [citation needed .
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1972 : Dagmar Käsling , Rita Kühne , Helga Seidler , Monika Zehrt (GDR ) 1976 : Doris Maletzki , Brigitte Rohde , Ellen Streidt , Christina Brehmer (GDR ) 1980 : Tatyana Prorochenko , Tatyana Goyshchik , Nina Zyuskova , Irina Nazarova (URS ) 1984 : Lillie Leatherwood , Sherri Howard , Valerie Brisco-Hooks , Chandra Cheeseborough , Diane Dixon , Denean Howard (USA ) 1988 : Tatyana Ledovskaya , Olga Nazarova , Mariya Pinigina , Olha Bryzhina , Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova (URS ) 1992 : Yelena Ruzina , Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova , Olga Nazarova , Olha Bryzhina , Liliya Nurutdinova , Marina Shmonina (EUN ) 1996 : Rochelle Stevens , Maicel Malone-Wallace , Kim Graham , Jearl Miles , Linetta Wilson (USA ) 2000 : Jearl Miles Clark , Monique Hennagan , LaTasha Colander , Andrea Anderson (USA ) 2004 : DeeDee Trotter , Monique Henderson , Sanya Richards , Monique Hennagan , Moushaumi Robinson (USA ) 2008 : Mary Wineberg , Allyson Felix , Monique Henderson , Sanya Richards , Natasha Hastings (USA ) 2012 : DeeDee Trotter , Allyson Felix , Francena McCorory , Sanya Richards-Ross , Keshia Baker , Diamond Dixon (USA ) 2016 : Allyson Felix , Phyllis Francis , Natasha Hastings , Courtney Okolo , Taylor Ellis-Watson , Francena McCorory (USA ) 2020 : Sydney McLaughlin , Allyson Felix , Dalilah Muhammad , Athing Mu , Kaylin Whitney , Wadeline Jonathas , Kendall Ellis , Lynna Irby (USA ) 2024 : Shamier Little , Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone , Gabrielle Thomas , Alexis Holmes , Quanera Hayes , Aaliyah Butler , Kaylyn Brown (USA )
1981 : Soviet Union (Ambrazienė , Baskakova , Alyoshina , Nazarova )1983 : Soviet Union (Krylova , Borisova , Didilenko , Pinigina )1985 : Soviet Union (Navickaitė , Zvyagintseva , Korban , Alekseyeva )1987 : United States (Fridy , Mitchell , Stevens , Howard )1989 : United States (Mondie , Kaiser , Miles , Dendy )1991 : United States (Demas , Downing , Teri Smith , Malone )1993 : United States (Irving , Malone , Warren , Collins )1995 : Russia (Sotnikova , Khrushcheleva , Andreyeva , Chebykina )1997 : Russia (Sharova , Goncharenko , Bakhvalova , Kotlyarova )1999 : United States (Brown-Moore , Nelson , Barber , Reid )2001 : United States (Barber , Carolyn Jackson , Washington , Barber )2003 : Russia (Kondratyeva , Firova , Lavshuk , Lisnichenko )2005 : Russia (Ovchinnikova , Migunova , Kostetskaya , Nazarova )2007 : Ukraine (Pyhyda , Yefremova , Zavhorodnya , Shcherbak )2009 : Canada (Muir , Nelson , Hyacinthe , Akinsulie )2011 : Russia (Karnaushchenko , Migunova , Ustalova , Topilskaya )2013 : Russia (Tamkova , Kotlyarova , Renzhina , Ustalova )2015 : Poland (Hołub , Szczęsna , Linkiewicz , Święty )2017 : Poland (Hołub , Baumgart , Wyciszkiewicz , Święty , Gaworska * , Dąbrowska *)2019 : Ukraine (Mykolenko , Holienieva , Klymiuk , Melnyk )2021 : Poland (Bartnowska , Łozowska , Koczanowa , Formella , Wosztyl *, Granaszewska *)
