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Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Women's Speed Skating
Gold1960 Squaw Valley1,500 m
Gold1960 Squaw Valley3,000 m
Gold1964 Innsbruck500 m
Gold1964 Innsbruck1,000 m
Gold1964 Innsbruck1,500 m
Gold1964 Innsbruck3,000 m

Lidia Pavlovna Skoblikova (Russian: Ли́дия Па́вловна Ско́бликова) (born 8 March 1939[1][2][3]) is the most successful Olympic speed skater in terms of Olympic gold medals. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Speed skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since the first winter The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated between February At the 1960 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated between February At the 1960 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck At the 1964 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck At the 1964 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck At the 1964 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck At the 1964 Winter Olympics, eight Speed skating events were contested Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Speed skating or speedskating is a competitive form of Skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance Representing the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964, she won a total of six gold medals, still a record number for a speed skater. The Soviet Union first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952 and competed at the Games on 18 occasions since then The Winter Olympic Games are a winter Multi-sport event held every four years She also won 25 gold medals at the World Championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Olympic Winter Games.

Career

Skoblikova was born in Zlatoust, Soviet Union, some 60 km west of Chelyabinsk, Ural. Zlatoust (Златоу́ст is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Ay River (the Kama basin) 160 km The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Chelyabinsk (Челя́бинск is a city in Russia, located just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on Miass River. She trained at Burevestnik and later at Lokomotiv sports societies. Burevestnik (Буреве́стник English Stormy Petrel) was the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of students and teachers of the most part of high Lokomotiv (Локомотив English Locomotive) the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of Rail transport workers' Trade Unions, one of the In 1959, at age 19, Skoblikova qualified for the Soviet World Championships team, placing third in the national championships. She repeated that performance at the World Championships, winning two distance medals as well. The next season, she seemed headed for the World Title after winning the 500 m and placing 2nd in the 1,500 m, but she fell in the 1,000 m. By winning the final 3,000 m, she managed to land on the podium anyway, placing third again. A favourite for the Olympics now, she entered three events. In the first race, the 1,500 m, she broke the World Record, and won the gold medal. After just missing a second medal in the 1,000 m (fourth), Skoblikova approached the World Record in the 3,000 m (missing it by just half a second), but that was enough for her second gold medal.

During the following years, Skoblikova fought with her team mates to become World Champion. In 1961, she won the bronze for the third consecutive time, followed by the silver medal in 1962. In 1963, she finally managed to win the title. In Karuizawa, conditions were excellent, and Skoblikova won all four races, setting a new 1,000 m World Record in the process. is a town located in Kitasaku District, Nagano, Japan. As of January 1 2008, the town has an estimated Population

For the 1964 Olympics, Skoblikova was qualified for all four distances, and she managed to win all of them, thereby becoming the first Winter Olympian to win four individual gold medals. The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck This record was only beaten by Eric Heiden who won all five speedskating events in 1980. Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 14 1958 in Madison Wisconsin) is an American former long track speed skater who won all the men's speed skating The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in February Two weeks after the Olympics, she repeated her performance from Karuizawa and won all four distances at the World Championships.

Skoblikova withdrew from speedskating for two seasons, but returned in 1967, setting a new 3,000 m World Record in January. She failed to reach the podium in the World Championships however, and placed fourth. In 1968, she skated her third and last Olympics, but did not win a medal again - the 6th place in the 3,000 m was her best ranking. She retired in 1969 after, remarkably, never having won the USSR National Allround Championships – only single distances. In 1983, Skoblikova, then a member of the Soviet National Olympic Committee, received a silver Olympic Order from the hands of Juan Antonio Samaranch. Juan Antonio Samaranch Torelló Marquess of Samaranch (born 17 July 1920) is a Spanish sports official and was president of the International Olympic

Skoblikova was inducted in the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.

References

  1. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games. , 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. Fizkultura i sport (Физкультура и спорт lit trans 580.  
  2. ^ Lidia Skoblikova at SkatingResults
  3. ^ Lidia Skoblikova at DatabaseOlympics.com


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