Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili

Olympic athlete

1933 – 1994

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Who was Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili?

Nadezhda Pavlovna Khnykina is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres and long jump.

Khnykina trained at Dynamo in Tbilisi. She competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 200 metres where she won the bronze medal. She repeated this achievement in the 4 years later in Melbourne at the 1956 Summer Olympics only this time it was in the long jump.

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Born
Jun 24, 1933
Tbilisi
Nationality
  • Soviet Union
Died
1994

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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