Marina Shmonina

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Marina Shmonina (born 9 February 1965 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union, Russia and later Uzbekistan. She specialized in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.

She competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the heats of the relay competition. When the team of Yelena Ruzina, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova and Olga Bryzgina won the final, Shmonina was also awarded the gold medal. Shmonina was hailed in Uzbekistan as the first Uzbek athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

Achievements

Representing Soviet Union
1989	European Indoor Championships	The Hague, Netherlands	2nd	400 m	52.36
1989	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	5th	400 m	52.44
1990	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	1st	400 m	51.22
	Goodwill Games	Seattle, United States	7th	400 m
	Goodwill Games	Seattle, United States	1st	4x400 m relay	3:23.70
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	7th	400 m	51.67
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	1st	4x400 m relay
1991	World Indoor Championships	Seville, Spain	2nd	4x400 m relay	3:27.95
Representing Unified Team
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	5th	400 m	52.26
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	1st	4x400 m relay
Representing Russia Russia
1993	World Indoor Championships	Toronto, Canada		4x400 m relay	DISQ

At both the 1990 Europeans and 1992 Olympics Shmonina ran in the heats but not the final.
At the 1993 World Indoors, the Russians were the original winners in 3:28.90. They were disqualified due to Shmonina failing a drugs test.

References

Sports Reference

Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay

1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goyshchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
1984: United States (Leatherwood, S. Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough, Dixon, D. Howard)
1988: Soviet Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina, Dzhigalova)
1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Robinson)
2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
2012: United States (Trotter, Felix, McCorory, Richards-Ross, Baker, Dixon)

Persondata
Name	Shmonina, Marina
Alternative names
Short description	Soviet sprinter
Date of birth	9 February 1965
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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