Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Ermolaeva (born 1930 ) - Soviet and Belarusian athlete-athlete ( running ), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1958). European champion, four-time champion of the Soviet Union. [2]
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| A country |  USSR →  Belarus | |||||||||||||||
| Specialization | Athletics | |||||||||||||||
| Club | USSR Dynamo ( Minsk ) | |||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | 1930 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | city of Worsma , Gorky region , USSR (now Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia) | |||||||||||||||
| Trainers | Boris Levinson [1] | |||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born in 1930 [3] in the city of Vorsma, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) region, the family had five children.
In 1947, Elizabeth became a student at the Bogorodsky Leather Technical College, where teacher Samson Sandler taught physical education, noting the girl’s outstanding athletic abilities. In the fourth year of study, she won the championship of the Gorky region in two disciplines - 400 meters and cross country, after which Yermolaev was included in the national team of the region, and she began to prepare for the championship of the Russian Federation. In republican competitions, she took second place in the 400-meter race, third place in the 200-meter race and became fourth in the 800 -meter final . After that, the young athlete was included in the national team of the Russian Federation and in 1951 in Minsk she participated in the USSR Championship. There, a Belarusian coach Boris Levinson noticed her and offered to enter the Minsk Institute of Physical Culture, [4] to continue her further sports career. [2]
After graduating from college in 1955, she continued to do athletics. In April 1957, her first international success came to her - in Paris, Ermolaeva took second place in the cross-country for the prizes of the French Communist newspaper “ Humanite ”. This was followed by victories at the USSR Championship and the first ever Universiade. In March 1958, she again won the cross of the Umanite newspaper and in July confirmed the title of champion of the USSR, and in August in Stockholm she became the European champion in her favorite 800-meter.
Elizabeth began to prepare for the 1960 Olympics in Rome , but in 1959, having won the Soviet Union cross-country championship, she was injured. Another injury received in 1960 crossed out her hopes of participating in the Olympics. Ermolaeva, having left the treadmill ahead of time, continued to work at the Minsk Institute of Physical Education, then at the Olympic Reserve School [2] , becoming the Honored Trainer of the Belarusian SSR [3] .
Currently retired, lives in Minsk .
Sporting Achievements
- European champion in the 800 meter race (1958).
- USSR champion in 800 meters race ( 1957 , 1958 ).
- USSR champion in the 2000 m cross-country (1957, 1959).