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Tamara Press
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Soviet track-and-field athlete (1937-2021)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1937 births, 2021 deaths and 20th-century Russian sportswomen.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-05-10 ) 10 May 1937, Kharkov , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 26 April 2021 (2021-04-26) (aged 83), Moscow , Russia
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Weight
- 102 kg (225 lb)
- Sport
- Shot put, discus throw
- Club
- Trud St. Petersburg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Kharkiv
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Sibling
- Irina Press
- Occupation
- animator
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Award
- Order of Friendship
- Participant in
- athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – women's shot put
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Soviet Union
- Mass
- 102
- Image
- Tamara Press 1960b (headshot).jpg
- Height
- 180
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- date of birth
- 1937-05-10
- Commons category
- Tamara Press
- sports discipline competed in
- discus throw
- date of death
- 2021-04-26
- name in native language
- Тамара Натановна Пресс
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
- competition won
- athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – women's shot put
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Encyclopedic overview
Tamara Natanovna Press (10 May 1937 – 26 April 2021) was a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962. Between 1959 and 1965, she set 11 world records: five in the shot put and six in the discus. Domestically, she held 16 national titles, nine in the shot put (1958–66) and seven in the discus (1960–66).
Her younger sister Irina Press was also a prominent track athlete, mostly in the sprint events.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamara Press” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.