Ludmila Engquist

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Medal record
Ludmila Engquist
Women’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for Sweden
Gold	1996 Atlanta	100 m hurdles
World Championships
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Gold	1991 Tokyo	100 m hurdles
Competitor for Sweden
Gold	1997 Athens	100 m hurdles
Bronze	1999 Seville	100 m hurdles

Ludmila Engquist (Lyudmila Viktorovna Narozhilenko, née Leonowa, Russian: Людмила Викторовна Нарожиленко-Леонова, born April 21, 1964 in Tambov Oblast, Russia) is a former Soviet/Russian/Swedish athlete who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics (for the Soviet Union), in the 1992 Summer Olympics (for the Unified Team), and in the 1996 Summer Olympics (for Sweden).

She won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships (for the Soviet Union) and 1997 World Championships as well as the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. For her 1997 victory in Athens, Engquist received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, the first non-native Swede to win the honor.

In 1999 Enquist was diagnosed with breast cancer. After surgery she stopped chemotherapy after 4 treatments because she did not want the drugs to interfere with her athletic career.

After a successful career she wanted to be the first woman ever to win both the summer and winter Olympics' gold medal by competing in and winning the inaugural two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, but she was banned from competition after being found guilty of using banned drugs, for the second time in her career.

She currently lives in Spain with her husband Johan Engquist.

[edit] See also

List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

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v • d • e Olympic champions in women's 80 m hurdles and 100 m hurdles

80 m hurdles	1932: Babe Didrikson • 1936: Trebisonda Valla • 1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen • 1952: Shirley Strickland de la Hunty • 1956: Shirley Strickland de la Hunty • 1960: Irina Press • 1964: Karin Balzer • 1968: Maureen Caird

100 m hurdles	1972: Annelie Ehrhardt • 1976: Johanna Schaller-Klier • 1980: Vera Komisova • 1984: Benita Fitzgerald-Brown • 1988: Yordanka Donkova • 1992: Voula Patoulidou • 1996: Ludmila Engquist • 2000: Olga Shishigina • 2004: Joanna Hayes

Awards
Preceded by Agneta Andersson & Susanne Gunnarsson	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1997	Succeeded by Sweden national men's handball team
Sporting positions
Preceded by Natalya Grigoryeva	Women's 100m Hurdles Best Year Performance 1991 — 1992	Succeeded by Gail Devers
Preceded by Olga Shishigina	Women's 100m Hurdles Best Year Performance 1996 — 1997	Succeeded by Glory Alozie