Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Soviet sprint athlete
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1958
Place of Birth: Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Profession: sprinter
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Lyudmila Kondratyeva
- Lyudmila Andreyevna Kondratyeva (Russian: ??????? ????????? ???????????; born 11 April 1958) is a Russian former track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union and is the 1980 Olympic 100 m champion. Kondratyeva began athletics at age 11 at the Children and Youth Sport School in Shakhty, her first trainer being Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlenko.
- Two years later she passed exams into Rostov on Don Children and Youth Sport School, created in 1971, where she was coached by Nina Vasilyevna Lazarchenko.
- In 1973 she became a member of the Soviet Union National Youth Team, and in 1974 - of the Soviet Union National Team.
- At the 1975 European Youth Championships Kondratyeva finished 4th in the 200m and in the 4 × 100 m relay.
- Four years later she became the winner of the 200 m at the 1978 European Championships, where she also won a gold in the 4 × 100 m relay event. Now one of the medal favourites for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were held in Moscow, she also ran a non-recognised World Record just before the Olympics.
- The final was a close race, with the first 5 finishing within 1 tenth of a second.
- A photo finish showed that Kondratyeva had beaten Marlies Göhr of East Germany by just 0.01 seconds.
- Kondratyeva pulled her hamstring at the finish, thereby not allowing her to run the 200 m or the 4 × 100 m relay. Unable to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the boycott led by the Soviet Union, Kondratyeva could not defend her Olympic title.
- She retired after that season and married Yuriy Sedykh, two time Olympic champion in the hammer throw, although they would later divorce.
- The pair had a daughter, Oksana Kondratyeva, who followed in her father's footsteps and became an international hammer thrower.She came out of retirement to compete at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
- She made the semi-finals of the 100m and won a bronze medal as part of the Soviet women's 4 × 100 m relay.
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