Nina Rocheva

Nina Rocheva

Medal record
Women's cross-country skiing
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1980 Lake Placid	4 × 5 km relay
World Championships
	1974 Falun	4 × 5 km relay
	1978 Lahti	4 × 5 km relay

Nina Petrovna Rocheva (Russian: Нина Петровна Рочева, née Selyunina; 13 October 1948 – 8 January 2022) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed from 1978 to 1980. She won a silver medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Rocheva also earned two medals in the 4 × 5 km relay at the world ski championships: gold (under her maiden name Selyunina at the

She was married to the Soviet Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Vasily (Pavlovich) Rochev, she is the mother of Vasily (Vasilyevich) Rochev, also Olympic medalist in that discipline. She died on 8 January 2022, at the age of 73.^[1]

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

• 1 medal – (1 silver)

World Championships

• 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 bronze)

References

External links

• Database Olympic Profile
• World Championship results (in German)

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