Kostetskaya, Olga Ivanovna

Olga Kostetskaya
Olga Kostetskaya
general information
Full name	Olga Ivanovna Kostetskaya
Date and place of birth	February 11, 1953 (66 years old); Vasyutintsy , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
Citizenship	USSR → Russia
Height	164 cm
The weight	50 kg
Trainer	Anatoly Kolesnikov ; Nikolay Malyshev
Sports career	1969 - 1984
IAAF
Personal records
800 m	1: 56.9 (1982)
1000 m	2: 31.65 (1982)
1,500 m	3: 54.23 (1982)
3000 m	8: 36.40 (1982)
International medals
	European Championships

Olga Ivanovna Kostetskaya (before marriage - Dvirna) (born February 11, 1953 , Vasyutintsy ) is a Soviet athlete specializing in middle-distance running . 1982 European Champion . Three-time champion of the USSR (1978, 1982). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1982). The coach of the highest category.

Content

1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
2 Main results
- 2.1 International
- 2.2 National
3 notes
4 References

Biography

Olga Ivanovna Dvirna was born on February 11, 1953 in the village of Vasyutintsy, Cherkasy region, Ukrainian SSR. She began to engage in athletics under the leadership of Anatoly Kolesnikov ^[1] . In 1970 she graduated from school number 2 in Gukovo. In 1988 she graduated from the pedagogical faculty of GDOIFK them. P.F. Lesgaft .

In 1972, at the USSR Championship, she fulfilled the standard of a master of sports. She trained under the leadership of Nikolai Malyshev , who led Olga to victory at the 1982 European Championship ^[2] ^[3] . From 1972 to 1984 she was a member of the USSR national team.

After graduating from a sports career, she became a track and field coach. She taught at the SBEI DOD “SDUSSHOR“ Academy of Athletics of St. Petersburg. ”Her best-known pupil is her own daughter, Ekaterina Kostetskaya , who specializes in short and medium distance running - a participant in two Olympics (2008, 2012) ^[4] ^[5] , two-time champion of Russia in 2011 (800 and 1500 m), two-time champion of Russia in the relay 4 × 400 m (2004, 2010) ^[6] .

Currently, Olga Ivanovna works as a head coach at the ProRunning running school in St. Petersburg ^[7] ^[8] .

In 2012, she was awarded the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg "For achieving high sports results in official international and all-Russian competitions" ^[9] .

Personal life

Currently lives in St. Petersburg. After she married Alexander Kostetsky, she took his last name. There is a daughter - Ekaterina Kostetskaya (born 1986).

Key Results

International

Year	Competition	Location	Discipline	A place	Result
1970	European Junior Championship	Colombes , France	1,500 m	03!	4: 28.37
1976	Cross Country World Championship	Chepstow , Wales	4.8 km	29th	17:31
1979	Summer Universiade	Mexico City , Mexico	800 m	02!	2: 00.77
1979	Summer Universiade	Mexico City , Mexico	1,500 m	02!	4: 14.5
1981	Summer Universiade	Bucharest , Romania	1,500 m	03!	4: 06.39
1982	Europe championship	Athens , Greece	1,500 m	01!	3: 57.80

National

Year	Competition	Location	Discipline	A place	Result
1975	USSR Championship	Moscow	1,500 m	02!	4: 12.0
1976	USSR Championship	Kiev	1,500 m	03!	4: 08.9
1978	USSR Championship	Tbilisi	1,500 m	01!	4: 02.8
1978	USSR Championship	Tbilisi	relay race 4 × 800 m	01!	8: 01.9
1979	USSR Championship	Moscow	1,500 m	03!	4: 01.4
1982	USSR Championship	Kiev	1,500 m	01!	3: 54.23

Notes

Links

Olga Kostetskaya - profile on the IAAF website
The official page of Olga Kostetskaya on the VKontakte social network

[1] Opening of the Olympics of schoolchildren

[2] Outrunning men

[3] Olga Dvirna

[4] Katya Kostetskaya touched veterans

[5] Kostetskaya hoped to be more successful in running 1,500 meters at the Olympic Games

[6] From London - to the crown! After the Olympics, our best athletes got married

[7] About school

[8] Another “White Nights” (inaccessible link)

[9] Awarding of the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg "For Achieving High Sports Results at Official International and All-Russian Sports Competitions"