Galina Prozumenshchikova
Galina Prozumenshchikova in 1966
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| Full name | Galina Nikolayevna Prozumenshchikova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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26 November 1948 Sevastopol, Soviet Union |
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| Died | 19 July 2015 (aged 66) Moscow, Russian Federation |
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| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SKF Sevastopol; CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Galina Nikolayevna Prozumenshchikova (Russian: Галина Николаевна Прозуменщикова; IPA: [ɡɐˈlʲinə nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvnə prəzʊˈmʲenɕːɪkəvə]; 26 November 1948 – 19 July 2015) was a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who also competed in medley relays. She won five Olympic medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972 and five European Championships medals in 1966 and 1970. Her first Olympic medal, the gold in 200 m breaststroke in 1964, was the first Olympic gold in swimming for the Soviet Union. From 1964 to 1966, she set five world records: four in 200 m and one in 100 m breaststroke events. Between 1963 and 1972, she won 15 national titles and set 27 national records.
Galina was born in Sevastopol, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. She married twice and therefore changed her last name first to Stepanova (Russian: Степанова; IPA: [stʲɪˈpanəvə]) and then to Ivannikova (Russian: Иванникова; IPA: [ɪˈvanʲnʲɪkəvə]).
Her father, Nikolai Nikolayevich (1913–1991) was a submarine captain. Her mother, Sofia Petrovna (1922–1987) was a nurse and took part in World War II. Galina started swimming in a club in 1959 and until 1966 competed for SKF Sevastopol. By the time of her first Olympics in 1964, she had won several national and international competitions and set national and world records in the 200 m breaststroke. (Her favorite discipline was 100 m breaststroke, but it became an Olympic event only in 1968.) However, she underwent surgery for appendicitis in July, just before the Games, and was not in her top form. She also had a strong rival, Svetlana Babanina, who set a world record in the 100 m breaststroke before the 1964 Olympics. Nevertheless, Prozumenshchikova won the 200 m event, setting a new Olympic record and winning the first Soviet Olympic gold in swimming. Babanina finished third.
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