Yelizaveta Yermolayeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Soviet middle-distance runner
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Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
About Yelizaveta Yermolayeva
- Yelizaveta Aleksandrovna Yermolayeva (Russian: ????????? ????????????? ?????????; born 2 April 1930) is a former Soviet middle-distance runner. Yermolayeva won the 800 metres at the 1957 World University Games in Paris, her first international success.
- She also won at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm, beating Great Britain's Diane Leather in the championship record time of 2:06.3; Czechoslovakian sports statistician Jan Popper ranked her the world's best at the distance that year.
- Yermolayeva was one of the favorites for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, but was unable to compete due to injuries.
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