Lyudmila Pinayeva-Khvedosyuk is a former Soviet

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 sprint canoer

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 who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won four medals with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1964

1964 Summer Olympics

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, 1968

1968 Summer Olympics

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; K-2 500 m: 1972

1972 Summer Olympics

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) and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1968).

Pinayeva also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-1 500 m: 1966, 1970, 1971; K-4 500 m: 1963, 1966, 1971, 1973) and three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, 1973).