Irina Privalova

Irina Privalova

Privalova in 2020
Personal information
Born	(1968-11-22) 22 November 1968 (age 56) Malakhovka, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)[1]
Medal record Women's athletics Olympic Games Representing the  Unified Team 1992 Barcelona 4 × 100 m 1992 Barcelona 100 m Representing  Russia 2000 Sydney 400 m hurdles 2000 Sydney 4 × 400 m World Championships Representing  Soviet Union 1991 Tokyo 4 × 100 m relay Representing  Russia 1993 Stuttgart 4 × 100 m 1993 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m 1995 Gothenburg 200 m 1993 Stuttgart 200 m 1995 Gothenburg 100 m World Indoor Athletics Championships Representing  Soviet Union 1991 Seville 60 m 1991 Seville 200 m Representing  Russia 1993 Toronto 60 m 1993 Toronto 200 m 1995 Barcelona 400 m European Championships 1994 Helsinki 100 m 1994 Helsinki 200 m 1998 Budapest 200 m 1994 Helsinki 4 × 100 m 1998 Budapest 100 m 1998 Budapest 4 × 100 m IAAF World Cup 1994 London 100 m 1994 London 200 m 1994 London 400 m

Irina Anatolyevna Privalova (Russian: Ирина Анатольевна Привалова; born 22 November 1968) is a Russian Olympic gold medallist athlete. Her Summer Olympics debut was in 1992 in the sprint events, where she won two medals— a bronze in the 100 m and running the anchor leg in the 4x100 team, a silver — and came fourth in the 200, representing the Unified Team. With three European individual championships and three individual world medals, Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s (see Sprints) but had not yet won an outdoor international event gold medal (as an individual athlete, she had won relay gold in 1993).

In 2000, she switched to the 400 m hurdles discipline winning the gold medal in 53.02 s (see 400 m Hurdles) and a bronze in the 4 x 400 m relay team for Russia.

Irina Privalova is currently the world indoor record holder in the 50 m (5.96 s) and 60 m (6.92 s) sprints (See World Indoor Records). She has also been the world indoor champion at the 60 m (7.02 s in 1991), 200 m (22.15 s in 1993), and 400 m (50.23 s in 1995) events – the first athlete to win titles, indoors or outdoors, at three different distances.

Privalova achieved her best time (10.77 s) in the 100 m in 1994 – the fastest time for nine years.^[2]

In 2008, aged 39, she reached the semi-finals of the 100 m at Russian championships in attempting to qualify for her fourth Olympics.^[3] She had tried moving to the 800 m to qualify for the 2004 Olympics.^[4]

In 2020, Privalova stood for the presidency of the Russian Athletics Federation. She failed to win but became vice-president. She later was called to stand-in as acting president when the elected president moved to a government agency (See Russian Athletic Federation Presidency).^[5]