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Estonian athletics competitor (1936–2006)
Linda Ojastu (until 1960, Linda Kepp ; 29 February 1936 – 26 September 2006) was an Estonian athletics competitor.[1]
She was born in Tartu . In 1958 she graduated from the University of Tartu 's Institute of Physical Education.[1]
She started her athletics exercising in 1950, coached by Vilma Jürisma. Since 1954 her coach was Fred Kudu . In 1958 she won gold medal at European Athletics Championships being a member of Soviet Union 4 x 100 m relay team.[1]
She was multiple-times Estonian champion.[1]
1957–1979 she worked as a coach at the sport club Tartu Kalev's athletics school.[1]
She was married to track and field athlete Eino Ojastu. Their children are track and field athletes Annely Ojastu and Aivar Ojastu .[1]
Records:[1]
100 m: 11,8 (1958; repeating of Estonian record)
long jump: 5.52 (1958) References
1938 : Germany (Kohl , Krauß , Albus , Kühnel )1946 : Netherlands (v.d. Kade-Koudijs , Witziers-Timmer , Adema , Blankers-Koen )1950 : Great Britain (Hay , Desforges , Hall , Foulds )1954 : Soviet Union (Krepkina , Uliskina , Itkina , Turova )1958 : Soviet Union (Krepkina , Kepp , Polyakova , Maslovska )1962 : Poland (Ciepły , Sobotta , Szyroka , Piątkowska )1966 : Poland (Bednarek , Straszyńska , Kirszenstein , Kłobukowska )1969 : GDR (Höfer , Meissner , Podeswa , Vogt )1971 : FRG (Schittenhelm , Helten , Irrgang , Mickler )1974 : GDR (Maletzki , Stecher , Heinich , Eckert )1978 : Soviet Union (Anisimova , Maslakova , Kondratyeva , Storozhkova )1982 : GDR (Walther , Eckert , Rieger , Göhr )1986 : GDR (Gladisch , Rieger , Brestrich-Auerswald , Göhr )1990 : GDR (Möller , Krabbe , Behrendt , Günther )1994 : Germany (Paschke , Knoll , Zipp , Lichtenhagen )1998 : France (Benth , Bangué , Félix , Arron )2002 : France (Combe , Hurtis , Félix , Sidibé )2006 : Russia (Gushchina , Rusakova , Khabarova , Grigoryeva )2010 : Ukraine (Povh , Pohrebnyak , Ryemyen , Bryzhina )2012 : Germany (Günther , Cibis , Pinto , Sailer )2014 : Great Britain (Philip , Nelson , J. Williams , Henry )2016 : Netherlands (Samuel , Schippers , Van Schagen , Sedney )2018 : Great Britain (Philip , Lansiquot , B. Williams , Asher-Smith )2022 : Germany (Mayer , Haase , Lückenkemper , Burghardt )
