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Line 1: {{Short description\|Russian runner}} {{BLP sources\|date=October 2011}} {{MedalTableTop\|Tatyana Kazankina, November 2019-3.jpg\|220px\|Tatyana Kazankina in November 2019}} Line 10 ⟶ 11: {{MedalBronze \| [[1983 World Championships in Athletics\|1983 Helsinki]] \| [[1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres\|3000 m]]}} {{MedalBottom}} '''Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina''' ({{~~lang-~~langx\|ru\|Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина}}; born 17 December 1951 in [[Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]) is a [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]]/[[Russia]]n former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the [[Olympic Games]]. She was also awarded the [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] and the title ''[[Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR]]'' in 1976. Kazankina competed for [[Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR\|VSS]] [[Burevestnik (society)\|Burevestnik]]. A month before the [[1976 Summer Olympics\|1976 Olympic Games]] in [[Montreal]], Kazankina became the first woman to run 1500 m in under 4 minutes, her time of 3:56.0 beating [[Ludmila Bragina]]'s world record by 5.4 seconds. She won the 1500 m and 800 m golds in the Montreal games, setting a world record in the latter. In 1980, she ran the 1500 m in 3:52.47, becoming the first woman to run the distance faster than [[Paavo Nurmi]]. This stood as a world record for thirteen years. Line 20 ⟶ 21: Kazankina lives in [[Saint Petersburg]] where she worked at the ''State Committee of Physical Culture and Tourism'' of [[Russian Federation]]. In 2023, she criticized the [[International Olympic Committee]] for requiring Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and called "absurd" the idea of them condemning the "[[~~2022~~ Russian invasion of Ukraine~~\|special military operation~~]]".<ref>[https://sport-express.ru/olympics/paris2024/news/kazankina-nazvala-nepriemlemymi-usloviya-mok-po-dopusku-rossiyskih-sportsmenov-2037704/ Казанкина назвала неприемлемыми условия МОК по допуску российских спортсменов]</ref> ==See also== Line 74 ⟶ 75: [[Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)]] [[Category:Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners]] [[Category:~~Universiade~~FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade]] [[Category:Friendship Games medalists in athletics]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Saratov Oblast]] [[Category:Soviet Athletics Championships winners]]