Nina Dumbadze

Nina Dumbadze
	Dynamo Tbilisi
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	DT – 57.04 m (1952); SP – 12.76 m (1948)
Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
European Championships

Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze (Georgian: ნინო დუმბაძე; 23 May 1919 – 14 April 1983)^[1]^[3]^{[note 1]} was a discus thrower who represented the Soviet Union. She won the European title in 1946 and 1950, and a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics.^[1]

Dumbadze was born in

Nina Romashkova and Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, and hence placed third at the 1952 Olympics. Earlier she won eight Soviet titles, in 1939, 1943–44 and 1946–50.^[1]

After retiring from competitions Dumbadze worked as an athletics coach together with her husband Boris Dyachkov, who trained the Georgian athletics team for almost five decades. Their son

Yuri Dyachkov became an Olympic decathlete.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Some sources give her date of birth as 23 January 1919.^[2]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Nino Dumbadze". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Nino Dumbadze". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
^ Думбадзе Нина Яковлевна (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
^ Nina Dumbadze at Tilastopaja (registration required)

External links

Biography (in Russian)

Records
Preceded by Nina Romashkova	Women's discus throw world record holder 8 August 1948 – 9 August 1952 18 October 1952 – 12 September 1960	Succeeded by Nina Romashkova Tamara Press