1. Yelena Nikolayevna
Nikolayeva

2. Yelena was born in 1st February 1966, In the
village Akshiki. She is a Russian sportsman,
athlete. She is a race walker.

3. After school she started to go race walking, then she received the title of Master
of Sports. In 1986 she set the worlds new record in race walking.

4. Her first international
achievement was a fifth place
at the 1987 World
Championships, something
which happened again at the
1991 World Indoor
Championships. One year
later she won an Olympic
silver medal behind Chen
Yueling. Success followed
over the next years, and in
1996 she became the second
and last Olympic champion in
the 10 kilometers distance,
which was replaced by 20 km.
Proving to handle the longer
distance as well, she won the
title at the 2003 World
Championships in Paris.