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Luhansk

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Ukraine

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 sprint athlete

Sprint (race)

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 who specializes in the 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

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Her personal best times are 11.44 seconds in the 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

 (outdoor), achieved in June 2007 in Kiev

Kiev

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; and 22.44 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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Biography

Bryzhina is the daughter of the successful Soviet

Soviet Union

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 athletes Olga Bryzgina

Olga Bryzgina

Olha Bryzhina is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Ukraine. She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team...

 and Viktor Bryzgin

Viktor Bryzgin

Viktor Arkadyevich Bryzhin is a former Soviet athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Viktor Bryzhin trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. He made his debut in the international championships at the first World Championships, where he reached to the quarterfinal...

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Bryzhina is a student at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University on a sports scholarship

Scholarship

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Bryzhina was part (with Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen

Mariya Ryemyen

Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...

 and Olesya Povh) of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 - the fastest time in the world that year. Bryzhina won silver in the (individual) 200m during this championship when she ran 22.44 (gold went to France

France

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's Myriam Soumare

Myriam Soumaré

Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...

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