Tatyana Averina

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Tatyana Averina

Tatyana Averina in 1979

Personal information

Born

1950.6.25
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Died

2001.8.22
Moscow, Russia

Height

1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

61 kg (134 lb)

Sport

Speed skating

Club

Burevestnik

Medal record

Competitor for Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	1,000 m
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	3,000 m
Bronze	1976 Innsbruck	500 m
Bronze	1976 Innsbruck	1,500 m
World Championships
Silver	1974 Heerenveen	Allround
Silver	1975 Assen	Allround
Silver	1976 Gjøvik	Allround
Gold	1978 Helsinki	Allround

Tatyana Borisovna Averina (Russian: Татья́на Бори́совна Аве́рина; 25 June 1950 – 22 August 2001^[1]) was a Soviet Russian speed skater. After getting married, her name would also appear as Tatyana Barabash (Russian: Татьяна Барабаш).^[2]

Short biography

She trained at Burevestnik Voluntary Sports Society in Gorky.^[3] Averina made the USSR National Team in 1970 and was coached by Boris Stenin.^[1] She finished in 12th place at the 1970 World All-around Championships and next year won a bronze medal in the 1,000 m at European Championships. In 1972, she the 500 m event at the Winter Universiade.^[2]

Between 1974 and 1975 she broke the World Record eleven times: four times in 1000 m event,^[4] twice in 1,500 m event,^[5] twice in 500 m event^[6] and three times in mini combination. In 1976 she earned the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR.^[1] Competing for the Soviet Union, Tatyana Averina participated in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and won medals (two gold and two bronze) on all four distances. Ironically, the Swiss newspaper Sport had written shortly before the Olympic Games, "Narrow specialisation has solidly taken root in the skating sport and these days it will be very hard to find an athlete who will compete in all distances and achieve successes in all, similar to Clas Thunberg and Lidia Skoblikova."^[2]

Averina would participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid as well, but did not win any medals there. After having won 3 silver medals in earlier years (1974, 1975 and 1976), Averina became World Allround Champion in 1978. In 1979, she became Soviet Allround Champion. Earlier, she had become Soviet Sprint Champion three times (1973, 1974 and 1975).^[2]

Medals

Tatyana Averina in 1975

An overview of medals won by Averina at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

Championships	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
Winter Olympics	1976 (1,000 m) 1976 (3,000 m)	–	1976 (500 m) 1976 (1,500 m)
World Allround	1978	1974 1975 1976	–
World Sprint	–	–	–
European Allround	–	–	–
Soviet Allround	1979	–	–
Soviet Sprint	1973 1974 1975	–	–

World records

Over the course of her career, Averina skated eleven world records:

Event	Result	Date	Venue
1,500 m	2:14.00	1 April 1974	Medeo
1,000 m	1:26.40	2 April 1974	Medeo
Mini combination	180.089	2 April 1974	Medeo
500 m	41.70	11 March 1975	Medeo
1,500 m	2:09.90	11 March 1975	Medeo
1,000 m	1:26.12	12 March 1975	Medeo
Mini combination	176.930	12 March 1975	Medeo
1,000 m	1:25.28	22 March 1975	Medeo
500 m	41.06	29 March 1975	Medeo
1,000 m	1:23.46	29 March 1975	Medeo
Sprint combination	168.285	29 March 1975	Medeo

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Averina skated her personal records.^[2]

Event	Result	Date	Venue	WR
500 m	41.06	29 March 1975	Medeo	41.69
1,000 m	1:23.3	2 October 1979	Medeo	1:23.46
1,500 m	2:07.88	12 January 1979	Medeo	2:07.18
3,000 m	4:38.48	13 January 1979	Medeo	4:31.00
5,000 m	9:04.9	29 November 1981	Moscow	9:01.6

Note that Averina's personal record on the 3,000 m was not a recognised as a world record by the International Skating Union (ISU). Also note that the 5,000 m was suspended as a world record event at the 1955 ISU Congress and was reinstated at the 1982 ISU Congress.

Averina has an Adelskalender score of 184.589.

References

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↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 1
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
↑ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 528.
↑ "Speed skating, 1000 m – World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved January 9, 2006.
↑ "Speed skating, 1500 m – World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved January 9, 2006.
↑ "Speed skating, 500m – World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved January 9, 2006.

v t e Olympic champions in women's 1000 m speed skating

1960: Klara Guseva 1964: Lidiya Skoblikova 1968: Carry Geijssen 1972: Monika Pflug 1976: Tatyana Averina 1980: Natalya Petrusyova 1984: Karin Enke 1988: Christa Rothenburger 1992: Bonnie Blair 1994: Bonnie Blair 1998: Marianne Timmer 2002: Chris Witty 2006: Marianne Timmer 2010: Christine Nesbitt

v t e Olympic champions in women's 3000 m speed skating

1960: Lidiya Skoblikova 1964: Lidiya Skoblikova 1968: Ans Schut 1972: Stien Baas-Kaiser 1976: Tatyana Averina 1980: Bjørg Eva Jensen 1984: Andrea Schöne 1988: Yvonne van Gennip 1992: Gunda Niemann 1994: Svetlana Bazhanova 1998: Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann 2002: Claudia Pechstein 2006: Ireen Wüst 2010: Martina Sáblíková 2014: Ireen Wüst

World champions in women's allround speed skating

Persondata
Name	Averina, Tatyana
Alternative names
Short description	Speed skater
Date of birth	25 June 1950
Place of birth
Date of death	22 August 2001
Place of death

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