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| Born | 24 December 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||
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Larisa Zavarzina (born 24 December 1955) is a rower who competed for the Soviet Union. She was a 1982 World Champion who also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with the women's coxless pair where they came fifth. [1] [2]
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina is a former Ukrainian artistic gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals. She holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a gymnast, male or female, with 9. Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years. She held the record for individual event medals, winning 14 over 52 years. She is credited with helping to establish the Soviet Union as a dominant force in gymnastics.
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Nagano, Japan, from 7 to 22 February 1998. Twenty-four nations earned medals at these Games, and fifteen won at least one gold medal; forty-eight countries left the Olympics without winning a medal. Competitors from Germany earned the highest number of gold medals (12) and the most overall medals (29). With 10 gold medals and 25 overall medals, Norway finished second in both categories. Denmark won its first – and as of 2018 only – Winter Olympics medal, while Bulgaria and the Czech Republic won their first Winter Games gold medals. Azerbaijan, Kenya, Macedonia, Uruguay, and Venezuela competed for the first time, but none of them won a medal.
Larisa Valeriïvna Griga is a badminton player from Ukraine. She was the gold medalist at the 2003 European Junior Championships in the girls' singles event. She competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
Larisa Nikolaevna Kurkina born December 18, 1973) is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2002. She won a gold medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Larisa Lăcustă is a retired breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Romania, who has competed in two Summer Olympics for her native country: in 1996 and 2004. She is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Larisa Leonidovna Petrik is a former Russian gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared the team silver medal and earned an individual bronze medal on the beam. She also competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal in floor exercise, a gold medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in balance beam. Her gold medal on floor was very controversial because originally, Čáslavská won outright. After the competition was concluded, Petrik's prelims scores were changed to let her tie with Čáslavská, an action which caused Čáslavská to publicly defy the Soviets who had recently invaded her home country.
Larisa Mikhaylovna Popova is a Moldovan rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Larisa Khmelnitskaya is a retired female race walker who competed for Russia and Belarus
Larisa Andreea Iordache is a former Romanian artistic gymnast. She represented Romania at the 2012 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal with the team, and at the 2020 Olympic Games.
The women's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 12 February at Soldier Hollow.
Alena Igorevna Zavarzina is a Russian former snowboarder specializing in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom disciplines. She is the 2011 World champion and bronze medalist from the 2014 Winter Olympics in parallel giant slalom. She won the parallel giant slalom crystal globe in 2016/17 World Cup season.
Larisa Cerić is a Bosnian judoka competing in the women's +78 kg division. She won a silver medal at the 2014 European Judo Championships and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Judo Championships.
The Soviet Union women's national artistic gymnastics team represented the Soviet Union in FIG international competitions. They were the dominant force in the sport from the 1950s until the Soviet Union's collapse. They lead the medal tally for women's artistic gymnastics with 88 medals including 33 gold. Larisa Latynina is also the most decorated female athlete at the Olympic games with a total of 18 medals. Soviet dominance was unprecedented in scale and longevity and was likely the result of the country's heavy investment in mass and elite sports to fulfill its political agenda.
Larisa Zakharova is a Russian former medley swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1968 Summer Olympics for the Soviet Union.
Larisa Spasova is a Bulgarian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Larisa Mishina is a Russian ice hockey player. She competed in the women's tournaments at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Larisa Olkhina is a Kazakhstani water polo player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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