caption event club birth_place weight height pb sport birth_date image article_title
lyudmila bragina in 1972 1500 m , 3000 m dynamo krasnodar sverdlovsk , russia 57 kg lb on 1.65 m ftin on 1500 -- 8:27.12 -lrb- 1976 -rrb- m -- 4:01.38 -lrb- 1972 -rrb- 3000 m athletics yes 24 july 1943 lyudmila bragina 1972.jpg lyudmila bragina

lyudmila bragina

lyudmila ivanovna bragina -lrb- , born 24 july 1943 -rrb- is a retired russian middle distance runner .
she competed for the soviet union in the 1500 m at the 1972 and 1976 olympics ; she won the event in 1972 and finished fifth in 1976 .
in july 1972 she set a new 1500 m world record at the soviet championships , and then progressively improved it in round 1 , semifinal and final of the 1972 olympics .
the same year she was awarded the order of the red banner of labour .
she also set three world records in the 3000 m , in 1972 , 1974 and 1976 .
at the european championships , bragina won four silver medals : in the 3,000 m outdoors -lrb- 1974 -rrb- , and in the 800 m -lrb- 1970 -rrb- and 1,500 m indoors -lrb- 1971 -- 72 -rrb- .
in 1960 bragina started training in the high jump , and changed to running only in 1964 .
born with weak lungs in the cold urals , she had a career-threatening bout of pneumonia in 1966 .
after recovering she moved to the south of russia , in krasnodar , where she later worked as an athletics coach .
