Marina Sidorova
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place1971 Helsinki4 × 100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place1978 Milan400 m
IAAF World Cup
Bronze medal – third place1977 Dusseldorf4 × 100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1977 Dusseldorf4 × 400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1979 Rome4 × 400 m relay

Marina Grigorievna Sidorova (Russian: Марина Григорьевна Сидорова-Никифорова, née Nikiforova; born 16 January 1950) is a Russian former Soviet track and field sprinter. She was a seven-time Soviet champion, winning over distances from 100 metres to 400 metres.[1][2]

Born in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad), she made her Olympic debut at age twenty-two and was a 200 metres semi-finalist and helped the Soviet women to fifth in the 4 × 100 metres relay.[3] Her greatest individual success came at the 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she won the women's 400 metres title.[4] She took a 400 m bronze at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and was twice a 200 m silver medallist at the Universiade.[5][6] She also won three individual medals at the European Cup during her career.[7]

With the Soviet women's relay team, she won four bronze medals at major competitions. Her first came at the 1971 European Athletics Championships, alongside Lyudmila Zharkova, Galina Bukharina and Nadezhda Besfamilnaya.[8] She won medals in both 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and returned two years later to win another bronze in the 4 × 400 metres relay in a team anchored by future Olympic champion Lyudmila Kondratyeva.[9]

She was the daughter of two former athletes who became athletics coaches, Grigory Nikiforov and Valentina Nikiforova, who propagated a new training technique for distance running, based on long, low-speed runs and short high-speed runs.

Personal bests

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
1971 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 3rd 4 × 100 m relay 44.5
1972 Olympic Games Munich, West Germany 7th (semis) 200 m 23.40
5th 4 × 100 m relay 43.59
1973 Universiade Moscow, Soviet Union 2nd 200 m 22.72
European Cup Edinburgh, United Kingdom 3rd 100 m 11.40
2nd 200 m 22.93
1974 European Championships Rome, Italy 8th (semis) 200 m 24.66
1977 European Cup Helsinki, Finland 2nd 400 m 51.20
IAAF World Cup Düsseldorf, West Germany 3rd 400 m 51.29
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 42.91
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.0
Universiade Sofia, Bulgaria 2nd 200 m 23.09
1978 European Indoor Championships Milan, Italy 1st 400 m 52.42
1979 IAAF World Cup Montreal, Canada 3rd 4 × 100 m relay 42.52
Spartakiad Moscow, Soviet Union 3rd 200 m 23.45

National titles

See also

References

  1. ↑ Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  2. ↑ Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  3. ↑ Marina Sidorova. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  4. ↑ European Indoor Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  5. ↑ IAAF World Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  6. ↑ Universiade (women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  7. ↑ European Cup (women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  8. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  9. ↑ IAAF World Cup Archived 2012-10-26 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  10. ↑ Marina Sidorova. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
  11. 1 2 3 Marina Sidorova. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
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