Tamara Rylova
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Birth name | Tamara Nikolayevna Rylova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Vologda, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 1 October 1931||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 February 2021 | (aged 89)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tamara Nikolayevna Rylova (Russian: Тамара Николаевна Рылова; 1 October 1931 – 1 February 2021)[1] was a speed skater.
Career
After
The next month, she won silver at the 1955 World Allround Championships behind fellow Soviet skater Rimma Zhukova and that already showed that most of the time, Rylova's strongest competition was from other Soviet skaters. The next year, she won bronze, behind two Soviet skaters, thus making all three medals going to the Soviet Union. And this was not an exception, rather it was the rule. In fact, in the years 1953–1964, Soviet women won all three medals at every one of those twelve World Allround Championships.
In 1957 and 1958, Rylova won two more silver medals at the World Allround Championships, both behind
After that, Rylova would not make any more international appearances except once, four years later, when she won another bronze medal at the 1964 World Allround Championship. During the intermediate years, she had not won much on a national level. Her last appearance at the Soviet Allround Championships was in 1966.
Medals
An overview of medals won by Rylova at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
Championships | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
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Winter Olympics | – | – | 1960 (1,000 m) |
World Allround | 1959 | 1955 1957 1958 1960 |
1956 1964 |
Soviet Allround | 1955 1957 1959 1960 |
1958 | 1954 1964 |
World records
Over the course of her career, Rylova skated four
Event | Result | Date | Venue |
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500 m | 45.6 | 11 January 1955 | Medeo
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1,000 m | 1:33.4 | 12 January 1955 | Medeo
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Old combination | 203.920 | 22 January 1955 | Medeo
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Mini combination | 196.416 | 21 January 1960 | Medeo
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