Galina Stepanskaya

Soviet speed skater

Galina Stepanskaya

Galina Stepanskaya in 1976

Personal information

Born

(1949-01-27) 27 January 1949 (age 75)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Height

1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)

Sport

Speed skating

Club

Trud Leningrad

Medal record

Representing Soviet Union

Olympic Games
	1976 Innsbruck	1,500 m
World Championships
	1977 Keystone	Allround
	1978 Helsinki	Allround

Galina Andreyevna Stepanskaya (Russian: Галина Андреевна Степанская; born 27 January 1949) is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union. She won the 1,500 m event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. She was Soviet Allround Champion in 1976 and 1977 and won silver twice at the World Allround Championships, in 1977 and 1978.^[1]^[2] In 2009, she was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.^[3]

World records

During her career, Stepanskaya set three world records:^[2]

Distance	Result	Date	Location
3,000 m	4:40.59	16 March 1976	Medeo
3,000 m	4:31.00	23 March 1976	Medeo
Mini combination	173.810	23 March 1976	Medeo

Personal records

Distance	Result	Date	Location
500 m	42.44	3 April 1978	Medeo
1,000 m	1:24.06	23 March 1976	Medeo
1,500 m	2:10.12	22 March 1976	Medeo
3,000 m	4:31.00	23 March 1976	Medeo

References

^ Galina Stepanskaya Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
^ ^a ^b Galina Stepanskaya. speedskatingstats.com
^ Медведев поздравил с юбилеем олимпийскую чемпионку Галину Степанскую. RIA Novosti. 27 January 2009.