Valentina Tikhomirova

Valentina Tikhomirova
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1966 Budapest Pentathlon

Valentina Nikolayevna Tikhomirova (Russian: Валентина Николаевна Тихомирова; born 28 June 1941) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the women's pentathlon for the Soviet Union. She was the gold medallist at the 1966 European Athletics Championships and a five-time national pentathlon champion.

She represented the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games twice (1968, 1972) and competed two further times at the European Athletics Championships (1969, 1971), placing in the top five at all four events but failing to win any medals. She had a best of 5234 points, based on the points table at the time.