Lidiya Yurkova

Lidiya Yurkova
Personal information
Born (1967-01-15) January 15, 1967 (age 57)
Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)60 m hurdles, 100 m hurdles

Lidiya Vitalyevna Yurkova (Cyrillic: Лидия Витальевна Юркова; née Okolo-Kulak, born 15 January 1967 in Mogilev) is a retired Belarusian athlete who specialised in the sprint hurdles.[2] She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics as well as two indoor and one outdoor World Championships. In addition she won the bronze medal at the 1990 European Championships.

Her personal bests are 12.66 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (Kiev 1990) and 7.86 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Chelyabinsk 1990).