Marina Sidorova

Marina Grigorievna Sidorova (Russian: Марина Григорьевна Сидорова-Никифорова, née Nikiforova; born 16 January 1950) is a Russian former Soviet track and field sprinter. She was a seven-time Soviet champion, winning over distances from 100 metres to 400 metres.^[1][2]

Marina Sidorova

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
European Championships
	1971 Helsinki	4 × 100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
	1978 Milan	400 m
IAAF World Cup
	1977 Dusseldorf	4 × 100 m relay
	1977 Dusseldorf	4 × 400 m relay
	1979 Rome	4 × 400 m relay

Born in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad), she made her Olympic debut at age twenty-two and was a 200 metres semi-finalist and helped the Soviet women to fifth in the 4 × 100 metres relay.^[3] Her greatest individual success came at the 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she won the women's 400 metres title.^[4] She took a 400 m bronze at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and was twice a 200 m silver medallist at the Universiade.^[5][6] She also won three individual medals at the European Cup during her career.^[7]

With the Soviet women's relay team, she won four bronze medals at major competitions. Her first came at the 1971 European Athletics Championships, alongside Lyudmila Zharkova, Galina Bukharina and Nadezhda Besfamilnaya.^[8] She won medals in both 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and returned two years later to win another bronze in the 4 × 400 metres relay in a team anchored by future Olympic champion Lyudmila Kondratyeva.^[9]

She was the daughter of two former athletes who became athletics coaches, Grigory Nikiforov and Valentina Nikiforova, who propagated a new training technique for distance running, based on long, low-speed runs and short high-speed runs.

Personal bests

• 60 metres – 7.65 (1973)^[10]
• 100 metres – 11.2 (1973)^[11]
• 200 metres – 22.72 (1973)^[11]
• 400 metres – 50.98 (1977)^[11]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
1971	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.5
1972	Olympic Games	Munich, West Germany	7th (semis)	200 m	23.40
			5th	4 × 100 m relay	43.59
1973	Universiade	Moscow, Soviet Union	2nd	200 m	22.72
	European Cup	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	3rd	100 m	11.40
			2nd	200 m	22.93
1974	European Championships	Rome, Italy	8th (semis)	200 m	24.66
1977	European Cup	Helsinki, Finland	2nd	400 m	51.20
	IAAF World Cup	Düsseldorf, West Germany	3rd	400 m	51.29
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.91
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:27.0
	Universiade	Sofia, Bulgaria	2nd	200 m	23.09
1978	European Indoor Championships	Milan, Italy	1st	400 m	52.42
1979	IAAF World Cup	Montreal, Canada	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.52
	Spartakiad	Moscow, Soviet Union	3rd	200 m	23.45

National titles

• Soviet Athletics Championships
  • 100 m: 1974
  • 200 m: 1973, 1974, 1977
  • 400 m: 1977
• Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships
  • 400 m: 1977, 1978

See also

• List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women)
• List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women)

References

1. Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
2. Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
3. Marina Sidorova. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
4. European Indoor Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
5. IAAF World Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
6. Universiade (women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
7. European Cup (women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
8. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
9. IAAF World Cup Archived 2012-10-26 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
10. Marina Sidorova. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.
11. Marina Sidorova. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2017-04-03.

External links

• Marina Sidorova at World Athletics