Lidia Skoblikova



Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikova ( Russian : Лидия Павловна Скобликова) ( Golden Pen-oest , March 81939 ) is a former speed skater from the Soviet Union .

Skoblikova took part three times in the Winter Olympics ( in 1960,1964and 1968 ) and eight times at the World Championships, the only two international championships in its active period skating.

At the Winter Games in 1960, where the woman skating on the program for the first time, began Skoblikova's road to Olympic glory. In Squaw Valley, she became the first Olympic championin the 1,500 and 3,000 meters. With its participation in the Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, they prevailed on all four distances and she won four gold medals. Its dominant performance was improved in the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid when Eric Heiden won all five distances for men. She is six golds most successful Olympic skater (male / female), and she takes the third position in the list of most successful medal winners at the Olympic Winter Games after two skiersBjørn Dæhlie and Lyubov Jegorova .

She debuted in 1959 with a bronze medal at the 1959 World Cup . The Soviet Union dominated in those days the woman skating and delivered between 1948 and 1966 world champion . Only in 1951, when there was no Soviet skaters participated, the title went to the Finnish Eevi Huttunen . At the 1960 World Championships she won her second bronze medal. The following year she won for the third consecutive bronze medal at the 1961 World Cup . In 1962 she was second and in 1963 she became the first world champion , in 1964, she's extended title. Both championships she won all four distances. She is the only woman who won a tournament round all distances. Two World Cup She earned her eight appearances at the World Cup round of eighteen distance medals (10-6-2).

Content
[ hide ]  *1 Results ==Results [ edit] == ===Medal table [ edit] === ==Records [ Edit] == ===World Records[ Edit] === ===Personal records [ Edit] ===
 * 1.1 Medal Table
 * 2 Records
 * 2.1 World Records
 * 2.2 Personal records