Tatyana Averina
{{short description|Soviet Speed skater}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name=Tatyana Averina
|image=Tatyana Averina 1979.jpg
|caption=Tatyana Averina in 1979
|headercolor = #d7ecff
|birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1950|6|25}}
|birth_place=Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
|death_date={{death date and age|df=y|2001|8|22|1950|6|25}}
| height = {{convert|1.65|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|61|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Speed skating
|club=Burevestnik
|alma_mater=
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|{{URS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold |1976 Innsbruck | 1,000 m}}
{{MedalGold |1976 Innsbruck | 3,000 m}}
{{MedalBronze|1976 Innsbruck | 500 m}}
{{MedalBronze|1976 Innsbruck | 1,500 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1974 Heerenveen|Allround}}
{{MedalSilver|1975 Assen|Allround}}
{{MedalSilver|1976 Gjøvik|Allround}}
{{MedalGold|1978 Helsinki|Allround}}
}}
Tatyana Borisovna Averina ({{langx|ru|Татья́на Бори́совна Аве́рина}}; 25 June 1950 – 22 August 2001Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 1) was a Soviet Russian speed skater. After getting married, her name also appeared as Tatyana Barabash ({{langx|ru|Татьяна Барабаш}}).
Biography
Averina was trained by Boris Stenin at Burevestnik Voluntary Sports Society in Gorky.{{cite book|title=All about Olympic Games|author=Boris Khavin|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|edition = 2nd|year=1979|location=Moscow|language=Russian|page=528}} In 1970 she was selected for the USSR National Team. She finished in 12th place at the 1970 World All-around Championships and the next year won a bronze medal in the 1,000 m at European Championships. In 1972, she won the 500 m event at the Winter Universiade.
Between 1974 and 1975 Averina broke world records eleven times: four times in the 1000 m,{{cite web|title=Speed skating, 1000 m – World Record progression|work=International Olympic Committee|url=http://www.olympic.org/common/asp/download_report.asp?file=en_report_169.pdf&id=169|accessdate=January 9, 2006}} twice in the 1,500 m,{{cite web|title=Speed skating, 1500 m – World Record progression|work=International Olympic Committee|url=http://www.olympic.org/common/asp/download_report.asp?file=en_report_170.pdf&id=170|accessdate=January 9, 2006}} twice in the 500 m{{cite web|title=Speed skating, 500m – World Record progression|work=International Olympic Committee|url=http://www.olympic.org/common/asp/download_report.asp?file=en_report_173.pdf&id=173|accessdate=January 9, 2006}} and three times in the mini combination. In 1976 she earned the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She participated in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and won medals (two gold and two bronze) on all four distances. The Swiss newspaper Sport had written shortly before the Olympic Games, "Narrow specialisation has solidly taken root in the skating sport and these days it will be very hard to find an athlete who will compete in all distances and achieve successes in all, similar to Clas Thunberg and Lidia Skoblikova."
Averina took part in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, but did not win any medal. After having won 3 silver medals in earlier years (1974, 1975 and 1976), Averina became World Allround Champion in 1978. In 1979, she became Soviet Allround Champion. Earlier, she had become Soviet Sprint Champion three times (1973, 1974 and 1975).
Medals
An overview of medals won by Averina at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Championships | bgcolor=gold | Gold medal | bgcolor=silver | Silver medal | bgcolor=cc9966 | Bronze medal | |
| align="left" | Winter Olympics | 1976 (1,000 m) 1976 (3,000 m) | – | 1976 (500 m) 1976 (1,500 m) |
| align="left" | World Allround | 1978 | 1974 1975 1976 | – |
| align="left" | World Sprint | – | – | – |
| align="left" | European Allround | – | – | – |
| align="left" | Soviet Allround | 1979 | – | – |
| align="left" | Soviet Sprint | 1973 1974 1975 | – | – |
World records
Over the course of her career, Averina skated eleven world records:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" | |||
| Event | Result | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,500 m | 2:14.00 | 1 April 1974 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 1,000 m | 1:26.40 | 2 April 1974 | align="left"|Medeo |
| Mini combination | 180.089 | 2 April 1974 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 500 m | 41.70 | 11 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 1,500 m | 2:09.90 | 11 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 1,000 m | 1:26.12 | 12 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| Mini combination | 176.930 | 12 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 1,000 m | 1:25.28 | 22 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 500 m | 41.06 | 29 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| 1,000 m | 1:23.46 | 29 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
| Sprint combination | 168.285 | 29 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo |
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Averina skated her personal records.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Venue | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 m | 41.06 | 29 March 1975 | align="left"|Medeo | 41.69 |
| 1,000 m | 1:23.3{{figure space}} | 2 October 1979 | align="left"|Medeo | 1:23.46 |
| 1,500 m | 2:07.88 | 12 January 1979 | align="left"|Medeo | 2:07.18 |
| 3,000 m | 4:38.48 | 13 January 1979 | align="left"|Medeo | 4:31.00 |
| 5,000 m | 9:04.9{{figure space}} | 29 November 1981 | align="left"|Moscow | align="center"|9:01.6{{figure space}} |
Note that Averina's personal record on the 3,000 m was not a recognised as a world record by the International Skating Union (ISU). Also note that the 5,000 m was suspended as a world record event at the 1955 ISU Congress and was reinstated at the 1982 ISU Congress.
Averina has an Adelskalender score of 184.589.
References
External links
- {{Sports links}}
- [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/29 Tatyana Averina at SkateResults.com]
- [http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=BARABASJ-AVERINA&fname=Tatjana&nat=URS&lm=l Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212091729/http://web.telia.com/~u46130641/adel.htm Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages]
- [http://www.peoples.ru/sport/skating/averina/ Short biography of Tatyana Averina] (in Russian)
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