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Women's athletics | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
European Championships | ||
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.