Tamara Novikova
{{short description|Soviet cyclist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|6|6|df=yes}}
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| discipline = Road & Track
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| majorwins = 1955 Female world record for 1 hour, 38.473 km
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{{MedalSport | Women’s Cycling}}
{{MedalCompetition|UCI Road World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 1958|Road race}}
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Tamara Novikova (born June 6, 1932 at Irkutsk, USSR) is a former female cyclist from the Soviet Union.[http://www.cyclingwebsite.net/coureuruitslagenfiche.php?coureurid=28411 The Cycling Website - Results for Tamara Navikova] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003045311/http://www.cyclingwebsite.net/coureuruitslagenfiche.php?coureurid=28411 |date=2012-10-03 }}
Biography
= Career =
Novikova broke the women's World Record for 1 hour on July 7, 1955 when she covered 38.473 km,[http://www.bicyclesusa.com/record.html Bicycles USA - World 1 hour record] breaking the mark of Italian Alfonsina Strada that had stood for 26 years.[http://torelli.com/billsblog.html Torrelli Cycles - Article about Alfonsina Strada at the 1924 Giro d'Italia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008211803/http://www.torelli.com/billsblog.html |date=2008-10-08 }}
Novikova took the silver medal in the first UCI Road World Championships - Women's Road Race at Reims, France in 1958. She finished behind Elsy Jacobs of Luxembourg.
On the 'Cycling Rankings 1958 - 2006' she was ranked 45th.[https://www.angelfire.com/nt2/wielerranglijst/vrouwen.html Women's Cycle Rankings]
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Category:Russian female cyclists
Category:Soviet female cyclists
Category:Sportspeople from Irkutsk
Category:20th-century Russian sportswomen
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