Galina Kovalenskaya
{{short description|Russian Masters track and field athlete (born 1934)}}
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 {{T&Fcalc|8.93}} was retired as the farthest outdoor mark with the 3 kg implement;{{cite web|url=http://www.mastersathletics.net/fileadmin/html/Rankings/All_Time/shotputwomen.htm|title=Shot Put ALL-TIME Rankings|publisher=mastersathletics.net|accessdate=2016-05-12|archive-date=2013-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403054459/http://mastersathletics.net/fileadmin/html/Rankings/All_Time/shotputwomen.htm|url-status=dead}} the age division now throws a 2 kg implement.{{cite web |url=http://world-masters-athletics.org/files/laws_rules/Appendix-A-K.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=world-masters-athletics.org |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005083801/http://world-masters-athletics.org/files/laws_rules/Appendix-A-K.pdf |archive-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/news/165-records-set-in-kamloops|title=Records set in Kamloops|publisher=world-masters-athletics.org|accessdate=2016-05-12}}
Career
She 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/results/2015lyon/lyonresultswomen.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-05-12 |archive-date=2015-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922043315/http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/results/2015lyon/lyonresultswomen.pdf |url-status=dead }} She had won a silver medal in the 5 throwing events in 2009 and a bronze in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz/wma_tpent.html|title=World Masters Weight Pentathlon|publisher=wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz|accessdate=2016-05-12}} In 2009, she was a silver medalist in the hammer throw.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz/wma.html|title=World Masters Athletics Champs|publisher=wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz|accessdate=2016-05-12}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.steeplechics.com/results.php?type=steeplereport&steeplereport=601|title=Steeple Chics . com {{pipe}} Your Home for Women's Steeplechase|publisher=steeplechics.com|accessdate=2016-05-12}} until in 2015 Florence Meiler ran the steeplechase at age 80.{{cite web|url=http://masterstrack.com/30977/|title=masterstrack.com » Flo Meiler becomes oldest steepler, ups WR in the W80 vault|date=8 July 2014|publisher=masterstrack.com|accessdate=2016-05-12}} She won the weight pentathlon at the 2013 and 2005 editions of the World Masters Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz/wmg_tpent.html|title=World Masters Games Weight Pentathlon|publisher=wellingtonmastersathletics.org.nz|accessdate=2016-05-12}} She almost ran the table{{Clarify|date=May 2016}} in the 2005 throwing events, only prevented by a second place in the discus.[http://www.mastershistory.org/NMN/09_2005.pdf Masters History 2005]
At the 2010 World Indoor Masters Championships she successfully ran the table, winning all the throwing events{{cite web|url=http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/results/Kamkoops_Results_2010.htm|title=Kamkoops Results 2010|publisher=world-masters-athletics.org|accessdate=2016-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032618/http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/results/Kamkoops_Results_2010.htm|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
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External links
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