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| Birth name | Yelena Petrovna Antonova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 1952 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yelena Petrovna Antonova (born 21 August 1952) is a rower from the Soviet Union.
She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the single sculls event where she finished in third place. [1]
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