Lyudmila Dzhigalova
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Gold | 1992 Barcelona | 4 x 400 metres |
Lyudmila Dzhigalova (Russian: Людмила Станиславовна Джигалова) (born 22 January 1962) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She trained at Spartak in Kharkov and represented the USSR.
She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics, where she placed third in the 4 x 400 metres heats with the team, but was substituted by Tatyana Ledovskaya in the finals. Four years later Dzhigalova competed for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Yelena Ruzina, Olga Nazarova and 400m silver medalist Olga Bryzgina.
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