Olga Levenkova (born 11 January 1984 in Kemerovo) is a Russian heptathlete.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Russia | |||||
2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 3rd | Heptathlon | 5712 pts |
2003 | European Junior Championships | Tampere, Finland | 1st | Heptathlon | 5748 pts |
Universiade | Daegu, South Korea | 9th | Heptathlon | 5672 pts | |
2005 | European U23 Championships | Erfurt, Germany | 3rd | Heptathlon | 5950 pts |
Universiade | Izmir, Turkey | 8th | Heptathlon | 5620 pts | |
2006 | World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 3rd | Pentathlon | 4579 pts |
Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 7th | Heptathlon | 6231 pts | |
European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10th | Heptathlon | 6118 pts | |
2007 | European Indoor Championships | Birmingham, England | 12th | Pentathlon | 4317 pts |
Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 13th | Heptathlon | 6062 pts | |
2008 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 16th | Heptathlon | 6103 pts |
Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion, she was the first ruler to be baptized.
Olga Valentinovna Korbut is a retired Belarusian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.
Three Sisters is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is often included on the shortlist of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's 1825–1832 novel in verse, retaining much of his poetry. Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II.
Olga Teresa Tañón Ortiz is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. Over the course of her career, she has earned two Grammy Awards, three Latin Grammy Awards, and 29 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards.
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero". She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model. Born and raised in Berdyansk, she moved to Paris at age 16 to pursue a modelling career. After starting her acting career in 2004, Kurylenko had her breakthrough film role in the action-thriller Hitman (2007). She gained recognition as Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008) and as Taskmaster in the superhero film Black Widow (2021).
Vasilissa Olga was the second and last destroyer of her class built for the Royal Hellenic Navy in Great Britain before the Second World War. She participated in the Greco-Italian War in 1940–1941, escorting convoys and unsuccessfully attacking Italian shipping in the Adriatic Sea. After the German invasion of Greece in April 1941, the ship escorted convoys between Egypt and Greece until she evacuated part of the government to Crete later that month and then to Egypt in May. After the Greek surrender on 1 June, Vasilissa Olga served with British forces for the rest of her career.
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 29 August 2011, she peaked at No. 24 in the doubles rankings.
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Olga Homeghi is a retired Romanian rower. She competed at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympics and won two gold, one silver and one bronze medal, each in different events. At the world championships she won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals between 1979 and 1987.
Olga Aleksandrovna Fatkulina is a Russian long-track speed skater. She competed for Russia at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics in the women's 500 m and 1000 m.
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia was the eldest child of the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.
Olga Danilović is a Serbian tennis player. On 26 June 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 93. On 24 April 2023, she peaked at No. 104 in the WTA doubles rankings. In July 2018, Danilović won her first WTA Tour singles title in Moscow by beating Anastasia Potapova in the final. She also won two WTA doubles titles, first in Tashkent and the second one in Lausanne. On the WTA Challenger Tour, she has won one doubles title. She has also won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Israel Premier Tech Roland is a professional women's cycling team based in Switzerland which competes in elite road bicycle racing events such as the UCI Women's World Tour.
Olga Kazakova is a Russian politician, was the Minister of Culture of the Stavropol Krai, since 2012, deputy of the State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Culture.