Zamira ZAYTSEVA

Zamira Zaytseva - U.S.S.R. - World Championship & European 1500m silver medalist.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 14 September 1983

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Monday, 16 February 1953
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Andizhan, Uzbekistan
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • U.S.S.R.
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Zamira ZAYTSEVA - U.S.S.R. - World Championship & European 1500m silver medalist.

Zamira is pictured above (476) during the final of the 1,500m at the

inaugural World Championships in 1983. She took the silver medal

behind Mary Decker (492) with compatriot Yekaterina Podkopayeva

(behind Gabriella Dorio, no. 267) taking the bronze.


Zamira Zaytseva (Russian: Замира Зайцева,


Her personal best times were 1:56.21 (800 metres) and 3:56.14 (1500 metres).



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Women's 1500m. Final.

World Athletics Champs 1983.

1. Mary Decker-Slaney   USA   4: 00.90
2. Zamira Zaytseva   SOV   4: 01.19
3. Yekaterina Podkopayeva   SOV   4: 02.25
4. Ravilya Agletdinova-Kotov   SOV   4: 02.67
5. Wendy Smith   GBR   4: 04.14
6. Doina Melinte   ROM   4: 04.42
7. Gabriella Dorio   ITA   4: 04.73
8. Brit McRoberts   CAN   4: 05.73
9. Christina Boxer-Cahill   GBR   4: 06.74

 

 

 

Photo by G. Herringshaw. © August 1982.

Zamira  Zaytseva is pictured above leading her compatriot Olga Dvirna in the

1500m final at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.

Zaytseva went on to win the silver medal behind Dvirna,

with the bronze going to Gabriella Dorio, who is the athlete

in blue partly obscured by Dvirna.


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Women's 1500m. Final.

European Athletics Championships 1982.


1. Olga DVIRNA   URS   3.57.80
2. Zamira ZAYTSEVA   URS   3.58.82
3. Gabriella DORIO   ITA   3.59.02
4. Maricia PUICA   ROM   3.59.31
5. Ulrike BRUNS   GDR   4.00.78
6. Tamara SOKORINA   URS   4.01.22