Antonina Seredina is a Soviet

Soviet Union

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 sprint canoer

Canoe racing

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 and Olympic champion who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won three medals with two golds (K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m: both 1960

1960 Summer Olympics

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) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1968

1968 Summer Olympics

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).

Seredina also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m: 1963, 1966) and three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1958, 1966).