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Yelena Ruzina

Yelena Ruzina
Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 4x400 m relay
World Championships
Representing Russia
Silver medal – second place 1993 Stuttgart 4x400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 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

  1. ^ "Olympic medal wrapup". USA Today. August 11, 1992. p. 10C.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
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