Yevgeniya Sechenova
Yevgeniya Ivanovna Setschenowa (Russian Евгения Ивановна Сеченова; born August 17, 1918 in Sevastopol, † June 1990) was a Soviet athlete. At a height of 1.73 m her competition weight was 60 kg.
Yevgeniya Setschenowa was the most successful Soviet sprinter of the 1940s. She won two gold, silver and bronze medals at the European Championships.
Career
She won in 1939, their first Soviet championship in 200 -meter run, 1940, she was champion in the 100 meters and 200 meters. In 1944, she again won the 200 meters. After the war, she won 1946/1947 and 1949/1950 in the 100 meters and 1946 and 1949 more than 200 meters.
At the end of August 1946, staged in Oslo first European Championships after the Second World War for the first time the Soviet Union approached at an international championship. Yevgeniya Setschenowa won in 11.9 seconds over 100 meters with three tenths of a second ahead of the Briton Winifred Jordan. About 200 meters Setschenowa won in 25.4 seconds, Jordan was resuspended in 25.6 seconds Second. With the Soviet 4x100 - meter relay team won bronze in 48.7 seconds behind the squadrons from the Netherlands and from France.
Four years later at the European Championships in Brussels in 1950, she won the 100 meters in 12.3 seconds behind Siber Fanny blanker - Koen in 11.7 seconds. About 200 meters in 24.8 seconds she was even more evident after the Dutch exceptional athlete, who won in 24.0 seconds. With the season they again won in 47.5 seconds bronze, this time behind the squadrons from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, both of which were stopped with 47.4 seconds.
In Helsinki in 1952, the Soviet Union held its first meeting at the Olympic Games. Setschenowa difference over 200 meters in 25.2 seconds from the semi-finals. With the season they reached the final. The Soviet relay finished in 46.3 seconds in fourth place behind the seasons from the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany and the UK.