Galina Kovalenskaya (born September 24, 1934) is a Russian Masters track and field athlete. She is the former W75 World Record holder in the shot put. Her record of 8.93 m (29 ft 3+1⁄2 in) was retired as the farthest outdoor mark with the 3 kg implement;[1] the age division now throws a 2 kg implement.[2] Her distance was surpassed by former Olympian Rosemary Chrimes indoors with 9.21, but World Masters Athletics do not accept indoor marks as equal to outdoor marks. At the 2010 World Indoor Masters Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, she also set the W75 World Indoor Record in the weight throw.[3]
Career
editShe won the same event at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships, in the process setting the W80 World Throws Pentathlon Bests in the shot Put, discus and javelin throw. Separately she also won the World Championship in those same three events. leaving Lyon, France, with four gold medals plus a bronze in the weight throw.[4] She had won a silver medal in the 5 throwing events in 2009 and a bronze in 2007.[5] In 2009, she was a silver medalist in the hammer throw.[6] She ran the 2000 metres steeplechase in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2013 at age 79, to become the oldest woman to complete a steeplechase while winning a silver medal,[7] until in 2015 Florence Meiler ran the steeplechase at age 80.[8] She won the weight pentathlon at the 2013 and 2005 editions of the World Masters Games.[9] She almost ran the table[clarification needed] in the 2005 throwing events, only prevented by a second place in the discus.[10]
At the 2010 World Indoor Masters Championships she successfully ran the table, winning all the throwing events[11]
References
edit- ^ "Shot Put ALL-TIME Rankings". mastersathletics.net. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). world-masters-athletics.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Records set in Kamloops". world-masters-athletics.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "World Masters Weight Pentathlon". wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "World Masters Athletics Champs". wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Steeple Chics . com | Your Home for Women's Steeplechase". steeplechics.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "masterstrack.com » Flo Meiler becomes oldest steepler, ups WR in the W80 vault". masterstrack.com. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "World Masters Games Weight Pentathlon". wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ Masters History 2005
- ^ "Kamkoops Results 2010". world-masters-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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