Olga Rukavishnikova

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Olympic medal record
Women’s Track and Field
Competitor for Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Silver 1980 Moscow Pentathlon

Olga Rukavishnikova (Russian: Ольга Рукавишникова) (born March 13, 1955) is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.

She competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, in the Pentathlon where she won the silver medal splitting team mates Nadezhda Tkachenko and Olga Kuragina for a Soviet clean sweep in what was the last Olympic pentathlon leading to the introduction of the heptathlon for women.

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