Lyudmila Bragina

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Medal record
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	1972 Munich	1.500 metres

Lyudmila Ivanovna Bragina (Russian: Людмила Ивановна Брагина) (born July 24, 1943 in Sverdlovsk) is a former Soviet middle distance runner. She trained at Dynamo in Krasnodar.

She competed for the USSR in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 1500 metres where she won the Gold medal. Bragina had beaten the World Record in the discipline three times there, in addition to setting it in July in Moscow.^[1] The same year Bragina was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour. She also set three World Records in the 3000 metres between 1972 and 1976.^[2]

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^ Athletics - World Record progression. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on September 6, 2006.
^ World and European Record Progression. Athletix.org. Retrieved on September 6, 2006.

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(Russian) Biography

Records
Preceded by Karin Burneleit	Women's 1500m World Record Holder 1972-07-18 — 1976-06-28	Succeeded by Tatyana Kazankina
Preceded by Paola Cacchi	Women's 3.000m World Record Holder August 12, 1972 — June 24, 1975	Succeeded by Grete Andersen-Waitz
Preceded by Grete Waitz	Women's 3.000m World Record Holder August 7, 1976 — July 25, 1982	Succeeded by Svetlana Ulmasova
Sporting positions
Preceded by Joyce Smith	Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1972	Succeeded by Paola Cacchi
Preceded by Paola Cacchi	Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1974	Succeeded by Grete Waitz
Preceded by Grete Waitz	Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1976	Succeeded by Grete Waitz