Yelena Ruzina

Yelena Ruzina
Medal record

Women's Athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for Unified Team
	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Competitor for Russia
	1993 Stuttgart	4x400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
	1995 Barcelona	4x400 m relay

Yelena Ivanovna Ruzina (Russian: Елена Ивановна Рузина) (born 3 April 1964 in Voronezh) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union and later, Russia.

She competed for Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, and 400 metres silver medalist Olga Bryzgina.^[1] She won another relay gold medal at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships.^[2]

References

↑ "Olympic medal wrapup". USA Today. August 11, 1992. p. 10C.
↑ http://www2.iaaf.org/WIC97/stats/wic95/wic95res.pdf

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)

World Indoor Champions in Women's 4×400 m Relay

1991: Germany (Seuser, Schreiter, Hesselbarth, Breuer)
1993: Jamaica (Hemmings, Grant, Rattray-Williams, Richards)
1995: Russia (Chebykina, Ruzina, Kulikova, Goncharenko)
1997: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Alekseyeva)
1999: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Nazarova)
2001: Russia (Nosova, Zykina, Sotnikova, Kotlyarova)
2003: Russia (Antyukh, Pechonkina, Zykina, Nazarova)
2004: Russia (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova)
2006: Russia (Levina, Nazarova, Krasnomovets, Antyukh)
2008: Russia (Gushchina, Levina, Nazarova, Zykina)
2010: United States (Dunn, Trotter, Hastings, Felix)
2012: Great Britain (Cox, Sanders, Ohuruogu, Shakes-Drayton)
2014: United States (Hastings, Atkins, McCorory, Tate, Hayes, Hargrove)

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