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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Aleksandra Fedoriva, Aleksandr Bratchikov, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy, Aleksandr Usov, Aleksandr Vashurkin, Aleksey Aksyonov, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Andrey Fedoriv, Andrey Rudnitskiy, Andrey Yepishin, Anna Gurova, Anna Tkach, Antonina Krivoshapka, Anton Kokorin, Darya Safonova, Denis Alekseyev, Dmitriy Forshev, Dmitriy Petrov, Dmitry Buryak, Elizabeta Savlinis, Galina Malchugina, Irina Baskakova, Irina Khabarova, Irina Privalova, Irina Rosikhina, Ivan Teplykh, Konstantin Svechkar, Ksenia Zadorina, Kseniya Ustalova, Kseniya Vdovina, Larisa Kruglova, Leonid Bartenev, Lyudmila Aksyonova, Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Lyudmila Litvinova, Maksim Dyldin, Maria Leontyavna Itkina, Marina Karnaushchenko, Marina Kislova, Marina Trandenkova, Mariya Bolikova, Mikhail Vdovin, Natalia Rusakova, Natalya Antyukh, Natalya Ivanova, Natalya Kovtun, Natalya Murinovich, Natalya Nazarova, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Nikita Uglov, Olesya Forsheva, Olesya Zykina, Olga Belkina, Olga Bogoslovskaya, Olga Fyodorova, Olga Kotlyarova, Olga Zaytseva, Pavel Trenikhin, Rima Batalova, Roman Smirnov (athlete), Ruslan Mashchenko, Svetlana Goncharenko, Svetlana Pospelova, Tatyana Alekseyeva, Tatyana Chebykina, Tatyana Firova, Tatyana Levina, Tatyana Veshkurova, Vera Anisimova, Vladimir Krasnov, Vladimir Muravyov (athlete), Vladislav Frolov, Yekaterina Grigoryeva, Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Yelena Bolsun, Yelena Migunova, Yelena Ruzina, Yevgeniya Polyakova, Yevgeniy Lebedev, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yuliya Gushchina, Yuliya Pechonkina, Yuliya Sotnikova, Yuliya Tabakova. Excerpt: Maria (also "Mariya" and "Marina") Leontyavna Itkina (born February 3, 1932) is a former Soviet runner and world record holder. Itkina is Jewish, and was born in Roslavl, Smolensk, Russia, and later lived in Minsk. Itkina ran for Spartak Minsk and the Dynamo Club in Minsk, Belarus. Itkina held 17 Russian track and field titles. In 1961, she tied the indoor 60 meter sprint world record of 7.3 seconds. Her mark of 11.4 seconds in the 100-meter sprint, achieved in 1960, is among the best-ever. In July 1956, Itkina set a 220-yard event world record of 23.6 seconds. She set a 400-meter world record of 53.9 seconds in 1955. In 1957, she lowered the world record to 53.6 seconds. She tied or broke her mark seven times. She lowered the record to 53.0 seconds on August 29, 1964. She set a world record at 440 yards, at 53.7 seconds, in September 1959, beating the record of Betty Cuthbert of Australia. In 1963, Itkina ran the third leg of the Soviet women's 800-meter relay team that set a world record of 1.34.7. She also won the 200-meter sprint at the 1957 World University Games in Paris, in 24.6 seconds. Itkina was a four-time European Champion. In 1954 at Bern, she won gold medals in the 200-meter (24.3) and 4 x 100-meter relay. In 1958 in Stockholm, she won the 400-meter event in a record 53.7 seconds, and won the bronze medal in the 200 meter race (24.3; as Barbara Janiszewska won the gold medal). In 1962 in Belgrade she won the 400-meter event (53.4) ahead of Joy Grieveson of Great Britain and Tilly van der Made of the Netherlands. In 1965, she won another 400-meter gold medal. In three Olympics, she came in fourth in four events, including a 4x100 relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and the 100-meter (.06 seconds behind Giuseppina Leone) and 200-meter (.03 seconds behind Dorothy Hyman) sprints and 4x100 relay at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and fifth in the 400-meter relay in 1964 in Tokyo (.2 seconds behind Judy Amoore). She was also eliminated in the semi-finals of the 20
