Galina Kreft

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Montreal	K-2 500 m
Silver	1980 Moscow	K-2 500 m
World Championships
Silver	1974 Mexico City	K-4 500 m
Silver	1975 Belgrade	K-1 500 m
Silver	1975 Belgrade	K-2 500 m
Silver	1975 Belgrade	K-4 500 m
Silver	1979 Duisburg	K-1 500 m
Silver	1979 Duisburg	K-4 500 m
Silver	1983 Tampere	K-4 500 m

Galina Sergeyevna Kreft-Alekseyeva (Russian: Галина Сергеевна Крефт-Алексеева; 14 March 1950 – 24 February 2005) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K-2 500 m event with a gold in 1976 and a silver in 1980.

Kreft also won seven silver medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two in the K-1 500 m (1975, 1979), one in the K-2 500 m (1975), and four in the K-4 500 m events (1974, 1975, 1979, 1983).

References

Olympic Kayaking Champions in Women's K-2 500 m

1960: Soviet Union (Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina) • 1964: Germany (Roswitha Esser, Annemarie Zimmermann) • 1968: West Germany (Roswitha Esser, Annemarie Zimmermann) • 1972: Soviet Union (Lyudmila Pinayeva, Yekaterina Kuryshko) • 1976: Soviet Union (Nina Gopova, Galina Kreft) • 1980: East Germany (Carsta Genäuß, Martina Bischof) • 1984: Sweden (Agneta Andersson, Anna Olsson) • 1988: East Germany (Birgit Fischer, Anke Nothnagel) • 1992: Germany (Ramona Portwich, Anke von Seck) • 1996: Sweden (Susanne Gunnarsson, Agneta Andersson) • 2000: Germany (Birgit Fischer, Katrin Wagner-Augustin) • 2004 – 2008: Hungary (Katalin Kovács, Natasa Janics)

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Name	Kreft, Galina
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Short description
Date of birth	14 March 1950
Place of birth
Date of death	24 February 2005
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