Natalya Lisovskaya

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Medal record
Natalya Lisovskaya
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Seoul	Shot put
World Championships
Gold	1987 Rome	Shot put
Silver	1991 Tokyo	Shot put
European Championships
Silver	1990 Split	Shot put

Natalya Lisovskaya (Russian: Наталья Лисовская) (born July 16, 1962 in Alegazy, Bashkir ASSR) is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow.

She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where she won the gold medal. Lisovskaya holds the world record in the women's shot put with a throw of 22.63 meters, which she achieved on June 7th, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She also has the four farthest throws of all time by a female shot putter.

Lisovskaya is married to men's hammer world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and has one daughter, Alexia. They live in Paris, France.

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IAAF profile for Natalya Lisovskaya

Records
Preceded by Ilona Slupianek	Women's Shot Put World Record Holder May 27, 1984 –	Succeeded by —
Sporting positions
Preceded by Ilona Slupianek	Women's Shot Put Best Year Performance 1984 – 1988	Succeeded by Li Meisu
Preceded by Sui Xinmei	Women's Shot Put Best Year Performance 1991	Succeeded by Svetlana Krivelyova

v • d • e Olympic Champions in the Women's Shot Put

1948: Micheline Ostermeyer • 1952: Galina Zybina • 1956: Tamara Tyshkevich • 1960: Tamara Press • 1964: Tamara Press • 1968: Margitta Gummel • 1972: Nadezhda Chizhova • 1976: Ivanka Hristova • 1980: Ilona Slupianek • 1984: Claudia Losch • 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya • 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova • 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss • 2000: Yanina Karolchyk • 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá