Raisa Smekhnova
{{short description|Soviet long-distance runner}}
Raisa Katyukova-Smekhnova ({{langx|be|Раіса Кацюкова-Сьмехава}}; born September 16, 1950, in Kaltan, Kemerovo) is a retired long-distance runner from the Soviet Union, who won the bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, behind Norway's Grete Waitz and USA's Marianne Dickerson. She won the Soviet title in the women's marathon in 1985.
Achievements
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1983
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Marathon |
1988
|16th |Marathon |
References
- {{World Athletics}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190715/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/raisa-katyukova-smekhnova-1.html sports-reference]
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Category:Belarusian female long-distance runners
Category:Soviet female long-distance runners
Category:Russian female long-distance runners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:World Athletics Championships medalists
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union
Category:Friendship Games medalists in athletics
Category:Athletes from Kemerovo Oblast
Category:Soviet Athletics Championships winners
Category:Competitors at the 1975 Summer Universiade
Category:Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
Category:20th-century Russian sportswomen
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